THIS is the shocking moment a tiger attacks a female zookeeper in front of horrified visitors.
The Siberian big cat sprung on the woman as she brought food into its enclosure.

Disturbing pictures show the zookeeper screaming on the ground as the tiger mauls her and appears to go in for the kill.

Heroic eyewitnesses jumped to the rescue and threw stones and shouted to distract the big cat.

One said: “The girl’s face was bleeding. She screamed and tried to fight off the animal.”
The woman was then able to escape and ran to a secure part of the compound in Kaliningrad, Russia.

She was rushed to hospital with multiple wounds and is now in a critical but stable condition.

The tiger – called Typhoon – was meant to be in a secure part of the compound when she brought the food.

Staff later arrived and shot a sedative into the beast, which has never attacked anyone before.
"This allowed the zoo employee to hide in a back room."

Typhoon turns 16 today and had not shown any previous aggression to zoo staff.

But today a source branded her "bad-tempered" and "aggressive".