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COLUMBUS A zookeeper was injured and released from the hospital after being attacked by a cheetah Thursday at the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium. The attack happened Thursday morning in a nonpublic area of the zoo while two staff members were walking Isabelle, a 4-year-old cheetah, for her daily exercise. Isabelle was harnessed as the staff members led her from the program s cheetah facility in the Heart of Africa exhibit to the behind-the-scenes yard across the zoo’s Jerry Borin Trace service. A keeper from the Heart of Africa region approached and, as Isabelle calmly sat purring, her handlers invited the keeper to come closer, according to the zoo. That s when Isabelle crouched down and lunged toward the keeper, who works around giraffes and other hoofstock. ....
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