A female staff member suffered scratch wounds on her head and arms Tuesday when a black panther attacked her through a fence in a zoo in the southwestern Japan city of Kagoshima, the zoo operator said.The woman in her 20s was observing the panther at feeding time through a gap in the steel fence at Hirakawa Zoological Park when the incident occurred at around 3:20 p.m. She was taken to a hospital and her injuries were deemed non-life-threatening.According to the zoo operator, the 1-meter-long female panther jumped toward the fence and reached its paws through the gap to attack the worker on…READ FULL ARTICLE
