THIS is the horrifying moment a teen broke into a lion enclosure at a Brazilian zoo – before meeting a tragic end. Gerson ...

The teen previously snuck into the landing gear of an Africa-bound plane in pursuit of his dream to tame lions.

A teenager, who dreamt of training big cats, was fatally attacked by a lioness at a zoo in Brazil on Sunday, Nov. 30.

The unidentified man was believed to be suffering from mental health problems when he scaled the wall to the Brazilian zoo ...

Gerson de Melo Machado was filmed making his way into the enclosure at Arruda Camera Park in Brazil before tragedy struck ...

A lioness that killed a 19-year-old man at a Brazilian zoo in front of horrified zoo visitors is not expected to be ...

Tragic Machado was well-known to police after an earlier incident when he breached airport security to reach Africa.

In January, F. Iriskulov was killed by lions at a zoo in Uzbekistan after entering their pen to film a video. Last year, a man was killed by a lion after entering its enclosure, apparently to take a ...

The park said that "euthanasia was never considered" for the lioness, who "shows no aggressive behavior outside the context ...

Gerson de Melo Machado, 19, was mauled to death after he invaded a lioness' enclosure at Parque Zoobotanio Arruda Camara in João Pessoa, Brazil, on Sunday morning, according to the Brazilian outlet ...