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Bronx Zoo tiger attack: Mahopac man in serious condition

Originally published: September 25, 2012 3:47 PM
Updated: September 25, 2012 4:03 PM
By NEWSDAY.COM

Left, ticket booths are empty and the gates

Photo credit: AP; Facebook | Left, ticket booths are empty and the gates are chained shut on Sept. 21, 2012 at an entrance to the Bronx Zoo after a visitor who jumped into a tiger enclosure was mauled there. Right, an undated Facebook image of the mauling victim David Villalobos, 25, of Mahopac.

A Mahopac man whose wish to "be one with the tiger" led him to leap 20 feet from a monorail ride into a tiger enclosure at the Bronx Zoo remained hospitalized Tuesday, officials said.

David Villalobos, 25, was listed in "serious" condition Tuesday afternoon, a spokeswoman at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx said.

Villalobos suffered bites and punctures on his arms, legs, shoulders...

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