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SINGAPORE – Police are investigating an incident involving a young man who illegally entered the white rhino enclosure at the Singapore Zoo on Thursday (December 17).
Videos circulating online show the man backflipping inside the enclosure with the rhinos, before jumping over the barricade and returning to the visitors’ path.
The original video was uploaded to the young man’s TikTok account, which has around 33,000 followers, but appears to have been removed.
Wildlife Reserves Singapore told The Straits Times that it filed a police report on Thursday.
He condemned the young man’s actions in an Instagram story posted on Friday, calling it “reckless and senseless act, socially irresponsible, extremely dangerous, and simply disrespectful to wildlife and animals.”
The zoo operator also urged people not to perform such stunts as they could endanger lives.
In November 2008, a Malaysian contract worker was killed by three white tigers after deliberately climbing into the Singapore Zoo exhibit.
The 32-year-old man, who worked as a cleaner, had jumped into the moat that separated the tigers from the visitors and was walking towards the creatures. He was attacked and killed in full view of shocked onlookers.
A state coroner ruled the case a suicide in 2009.
This article was first published in The times of the strait.
