Oleg Zubkov, the owner of the Safari Park «Taigan» with difficulty, but is already talking. The condition is stable

Krympress reports:

The third day, the press secretary of the Taigan Safari Park, Tatyana Aleksagina, is next to Oleg Zubkov in the Simferopol hospital, so it does not get in touch with reporters, but «KP-Crime» I managed to contact her. A woman who drove a lion with an ordinary scoop and a bucket does not consider herself a heroine and refuses glory. He says she did what she had to.

Now all the country’s television channels are asked to tell about some heroic act there, but I do not consider it heroism. The man came to the aid of another person. The most important thing is life, so now it is important that Oleg Alekseevich recovered. Before that, I don’t want to give any interviews. What difference does it make what I did there … just helped. He will return to us and then decide whether these interviews are needed or not, she modestly comments on her act.

Now the growl of lions causes bad sensations

The events of the evening of Sunday, the Savior of the Director of the Park recalls reluctantly and says that now the growl of lions in Tagan is a bad feeling for a second time in his life:

Since Oleg Alekseevich and I went to the lions, we discussed what anything could happen. I understood that my strength was definitely not enough to effectively help, so I first ran after the machine. He nodded then that I was supposed to do everything correctly. I could not speak. It was not immediately possible to drive the lion right away, with the third attempt.

At hand, Tatyana, recall, had only a bucket and a scoop, and the predator managed to drive away. But to bring the boss to the car was difficult for one woman.

I saw that Oleg Alekseevich was alive, but I would definitely not be able to physically raise him and put him in the car, but I had to act quickly. There were three meters to the car. A lot of people gathered on the bridges, but only one guy reacted very quickly and jumped to us. This man is just a hero, the world holds on such! We will definitely invite him to the park when Oleg Alekseevich recovers.

«We were preparing for the worst»

So far, according to doctors, Zubkov’s condition is stably serious. He has a trachea damaged and bleeding is stopped. Doctors helped him recover, but, according to the latest data, it is still hard for him to speak because of severe injuries. Tatyana Aleksagina says that the director of Taigan gradually comes to his senses:

We were preparing for the worst, although the vital organs were not hurt. There are two bite in the neck behind. The trachea is damaged, so he speaks very quietly, but already writes. Doctors said that they would do plastic surgery, it will recover quickly and well.

In addition, under the left edge of Oleg Zubkov, there is a trace of a lion claw. But in general, the arms and legs are not damaged and function normally.

Recall that the cause of the predator attack in the zoo is a loud sound of the closing door of the aviary. The lion, who calmly dinner in the savannah near the aviary, unexpectedly reacted to the noise and, sharply jumping, grabbed the director. After the incident, the Investigative Committee launched an investigation under an article on violation of labor protection requirements that resulted in causing serious harm to human health (facing imprisonment up to a year). On the spot, employees of the SK examined, collected evidence and interviewed the park employees. The necessary examinations are also scheduled and labor protection documentation is studied.

The head of the Association of Applied Zoopsychology, Sergei Chernikov, commented on the situation:

When people come into close contact with wild animals, cases of attacks will occur. This is inevitable. Firstly, lions, tigers experience stress from human attention, even if they are in conditions close to natural ones. Stress becomes chronic because wild animals are not adapted to life among people who constantly go, look, make sounds, bring their smells. This causes anxiety and even a simple movement in their direction may seem dangerous animal. And in the Taigan Park there were lions, who had already experienced the strongest stress from the tumors, who arrived from the Mariupol zoo, frightened by shelling. And the cat, in principle, is quite cautious predators, they need more calm, stability than many other species. And, of course, a change of territory is also affected, which is very important for cats, because they are territorial predators— notes the expert.

source: Komsomolskaya Pravda in Crimea

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