\u201cIt got him. It got him,\u201d visitors can be heard saying, with exclamations of \u201cmy God!\u201d<\/p>\n
The government statement said Machado \u201cdied from injuries caused by the animal\u201d.<\/p>\n
The zoo said in a statement on Instagram that the incident was \u201cextremely sad\u201d and that it was closed while investigations continue.<\/p>\n
Park vet Thiago Nery defended safety standards around the lion enclosure, which he said had over 8m of protection.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis incident was completely unforeseeable, outside any scenario within the park\u2019s routine.\u201d<\/p>\n
The park said that \u201ceuthanasia was never considered\u201d for Leona, who \u201cshows no aggressive behaviour outside the context of the incident\u201d.<\/p>\n
The government statement said that initial investigations showed \u201cthe man\u2019s actions may have been a possible suicide attempt\u201d.<\/p>\n
Child protection counsellor Veronica Oliveira said in a video on Instagram that she had accompanied Machado for eight years as he \u201cwent through all the institutional care in this city\u201d.<\/p>\n
She said his mother and grandparents suffered from schizophrenia, but state psychiatrists said he merely \u201chad a behavioural problem\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe should have been in treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n
In other media interviews, Oliveira said Machado had dreamed of being a lion tamer, and once cut through an airport fence and hid in the landing gear of a plane he thought was going to Africa.<\/p>\n
\u201cSociety, without knowing your story, preferred to throw you into the lion\u2019s den,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
– Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt got him. It got him,\u201d visitors can be heard saying, with exclamations of \u201cmy God!\u201d The government…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,1975,29893,27274,12630,6097,107008,156,79211,2070,296,3375,2193,84276,7975,111,139,69,6302,3048,1110,107009,5163,4054,15981,9880,9717,13558,3651],"class_list":["post-163054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-after","tag-at","tag-authorities","tag-brazilian","tag-climbing","tag-down","tag-enclosure","tag-entertainment","tag-fencing","tag-full","tag-into","tag-killed","tag-lion","tag-lioness","tag-mauled","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-safety","tag-said","tag-scaling","tag-shimmying","tag-teen","tag-teenager","tag-tree","tag-view","tag-visitors","tag-wall","tag-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}