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The National Zoo in Washington, D.C., became the scene of a bizarre and morbid spectacle on Sunday as hundreds of visitors cheered on a deer attempting to run to safety after it jumped a wall into the lion habitat. Zookeepers removed the lions, but only after they had fatally wounded the deer.The Washington Post reports that the crowd's cheering was not unlike the kind at a sporting event:
"Everyone was cheering, 'Go, go, go' " to encourage the deer to reach safety, witness Josh Shpayher said. "Everyone was rooting for the deer."The deer apparently ran from a nearby park into the zoo, through crowds of people, and then leaped into the moat surrounding the lions. One of the two female lions inside the enclosure jumped on the deer, and although the deer escaped, it suffered wounds that, according to a zoo spokesperson, made it "pretty evident" that the deer "would not survive." The deer was anesthetized.
As recounted by witnesses, the deer, over as much as 20 minutes, was in and out of a moat while the lions clutched, clawed or swatted it. A crowd of spectators grew. Some shrieked, cried out or took children away.
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