On Sept. 22, David Villalobos, a 25-year-old real estate agent from Mahopac, N.Y., visited the Bronx Zoo with a single intention: To “become one” with its tigers.
Villalobos boarded the Wild Asia Monorail, an attraction that glides past open-air enclosures of elephants, rhinos and a red panda. Once he reached the tiger enclosure, Villalobos leapt from the elevated train over a 16-foot-high perimeter fence, landed on all fours and found himself face-to-face with a 400-pound Siberian tiger named Bashuta.
Bashuta was not amused by the intrusion.
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Shawn Moynihan
Shawn Moynihan is Editor-in-Chief of National Underwriter Property & Casualty. A St. John’s University alum, Moynihan has earned 11 Jesse H. Neal Awards, the Pulitzers of the business press; seven Azbee Awards, from the American Society of Business Press Editors; two Folio Awards; and a SABEW award, from the Society of American Business Editors & Writers. Prior to joining ALM, he served as Managing Editor/Online Editor of journalism institution Editor & Publisher, the trade bible of the newspaper industry. Moynihan also has held editorial positions with AOL, Metro New York, and Newhouse Newspapers. He can be reached at [email protected].
