opportunity. jack hanna is the director amayor tuesday at the columbus zoo, he joins me tonight. most of the time we speak with you it s a feel good animal story, i spoke to you earlier today and i never heard you so upset about anything. this is one of the most horrifying things you ve ever heard in your entire life. it is. it is grotesque, abombenable. i could go on with the words, but let s let that go right now. it s unbelievable. why is that? i just heard an interview where the person said this is maybe a cultural difference. no, this isn t a cultural difference. in other countries they do have giraffes as a consumption food. but that s people who live way
i would have loved to have had her at the columbus zoo, as a matter of fact. but the word respect is what we have to use. you have to respect they re wild animals. the word fearless is difficult to use because if you re fearless, there s no fear there, but the respect you have to have for the animal, call it fear, call it what you want to, but that s what i wish had happened. this was an accident. she couldn t have that. she was in there. i don t know what happened, but now that i know it s an accident, i can at least understand now what happened. even an animal that has been raised by humans from the time it was a cub as this animal was, went on the ellen degeneres show when it was a cub, they re hardwired. this is a lion, this is what they do. they re hardwired to react. right. i have had young lions on shows. we still work with our cheetah, by the way. we continue to work with our cheetah. a cheetah is a different type of cat. we have two people on an animal. at the cluck bus
cat, because these were the loves of her life. and i will think of her every single time now i see one of those. and how much she would have enjoyed being there and working with them. no, it doesn t change anything. listen, i appreciate both of you taking the time to let everybody get to know her better and get to know her passions and what she loved and died doing what she loved. paul, thank you, and paul ryan, i wish you peace and strength in the days ahead. thank you. thanks for letting us tell her story to you. fatal attacks like this aren t common, but they happen. 20 people including five children have been killed by big cats in the last five years. jack hanna of the columbus zoo joins me now. as we heard ted rowlands report, this animal got into an area that was supposed to be secure. i just want to show our viewers the large enclosure where dianna was and the smaller one where cous cous was. what do you make of this? could have the lion actually
i had deputies that had to shoot animals with their side arms at close range. that is how volatile this situation was. we are not talking about your normal, everyday house cat or dog. these are 300 pound bengal tigers we had to put down. reporter: he says they couldn t take the chance of trying to tranquilize the animals only them run into residential neighborhoods if the tranquilizer didn t put them down. that is why they had to kill them. the authorities calling in the famous zoologist jack hannah from the columbus zoo to help them get control. we ll have latest on the story next hour on. jon: unbelievable. that s all you can say. rick folbaum, thanks. jenna: fox news alert on another developing breaking story today. a terror investigation in texas. we have the scene for you in downtown san antonio. an attempted break-in at a courthouse triggering a bomb scare there. five men reportedly in custody described as
police and trappers tried to track down these wild and dangerous animals as residents take precautions. i m going home. i am staying home. reporter: investigators asking anyone in the area, if they see anything to call local police. if you don t have to be outside, do not venture outside. we are zanesville, dave detling, abc news. people are going to have strong feelings. police officers have killed a large number of these animals. now we are told they are working with local zoologists trying to tranquilize them first the so hopefully they can keep more alive as they capture them. again, look at the photos from twitter. you can see that s a black bear there. and, literally talking lions, tigers, bears, wolves. oh, my. scary scene out there as well. later on good morning america, jack hannah from the columbus zoo will be on to give us insight and how they can deal with the animals. hopefully catch them all before anyone gets hurt. if anyone knows it is jack. yeah, you went