A 400-pound tiger that mauled a man who jumped from a moving monorail train and plummeted over a protective fence at the Bronx Zoo will not be euthanized and "did nothing wrong," the zoo director said. 
 
 The ticket booths are empty and the gates are chained shut at an entrance to the Bronx Zoo in New York, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. Zoo officials say a visitor who leaped into an exhibit and was mauled by... (Associated Press) 
 
 Bronx Zoo Director Jim Breheny speaks to the media during a news conference, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012, in New York. A visitor to the zoo was mauled by a tiger after he leaped from an elevated monorail train... (Associated Press) 
 
 CORRECTS THAT MAN DID NOT LOSE LEG, ADDS NEW INFO ON HIS CONDITION- FILE- In this Sept. 20, 2010 photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society, three Amur tiger cubs rest by a fallen tree limb at... (Associated Press) 
 
 The mauling happened Friday afternoon in the Wild Asia exhibit, where a train with open sides takes visitors over the Bronx River and through a forest, where they glide along the top edge of a fence past elephants, deer and a tiger enclosure. 
 
 Passengers aren't strapped in on the ride, and the man apparently jumped out of his train car with a leap powerful enough to clear the 16-foot-high perimeter fence. 
 
 The 25-year-old man was alone with a male Siberian tiger named Bashuta for about 10 minutes before he was rescued by zoo officials, who used a fire extinguisher to chase the animal away, said zoo director Jim Breheny. He suffered bites and punctures on his arms, legs, shoulders and back and broke an arm and a leg. 
 
 "When someone is determined to do something harmful to themselves," Breheny said, "it's very hard to stop that." 
 
 Bashuta was returned to a holding area where it usually sleeps at night and will not be euthanized, zoo officials said. 
 
 "The tiger did nothing wrong in this episode," Breheny said. 
 
 A hospital spokeswoman said the man was in stable condition Friday night, but his family has requested that no further information be released. 
 
 "If not for the quick response by our staff and their ability to perform well in emergency situations, the outcome would have been very different," Breheny said. 
 
 After zoo staff chased the tiger off, the man was instructed to roll under an electrified wire to get to safety, Breheny said. Zookeepers then called the tiger into a holding area, he said. 
 
 Bashuta is 11 years old and has been at the zoo for three years. 
 
 The Bronx Zoo, one of the nation's largest zoos, sprawls over 265 acres and contains hundreds of animals, many in habitats meant to resemble natural settings. Its exhibits include Tiger Mountain, Congo Gorilla Forest and World of Reptiles. 
 
 There are 10 tigers at the Wild Asia exhibit, but Bashuta was the only one on display at the time. There are no surveillance cameras in that area of the exhibit. 
 
 Zoo officials said they would review safety procedures but stressed that the situation was unusual. 
 
 "We review everything, but we honestly think we provide a safe experience," Breheny said. "And this is just an extraordinary occurrence ... somebody was deliberately trying to endanger themselves." 
 
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 Associated Press writers Tom Hays and David B. Caruso contributed to this report. ||||| An eight-year-old girl was mauled to death by a circus tiger after it pulled her into its enclosure at an amusement park in China. 
 
 Juan Niu was killed after sneaking away from her family to get a closer look at the tigers in a circus, and being pulled into their cage and mauled. 
 
 The youngster was visiting relatives in China's south-western Chongqing Municipality with her family when they decided to visit a local amusement park after seeing posters for their new circus attraction. 
 
 Pictured, tigers performing in the circus at Leheledu Amusement Park, in Chongqing city, in China 
 
 The circus tiger mauled the little girl after she entered a closed animal training site at Lehedu Amusement Park in China. Pictured, a caged Siberian tiger from China's Heilongjiang province at Beijing zoo 
 
 Leheledu Amusement Park managers had hired a travelling circus to entertain visitors and had set up temporary holding pens for the animals. 
 
 She had easily walked up to the cage and managed to slip through the bars, at which point she was pounced upon by a tiger and mauled in front of horrified park visitors. 
 
 Although animal trainers were quickly at the scene and pulled the child free of the animal, she was barely alive and was declared dead on arrival at a nearby hospital. 
 
 The incident last week did not initially make the news after park managers offered the family compensation and promised to increase security around the animals. 
 
 However, after rumours started circulating the park was forced to admit the tragedy had happened. 
 
 Spokesman Manchu Hung said: 'Nothing terrible like this has ever happened before and we take the safety of our visitors very seriously. 
 
 'We will pay all compensation necessary to the family and will make sure it's not possible for anything similar to ever happen again.' 
 
 A park spokesman said safety measures would be improved to prevent another incident. Pictured, the circus 
 
 A Shanghai Zoo keeper was mauled to death by this rare South China tiger last year after entering its enclosure, pictured, to clean 
 
 Last month, a nine-year-old boy had his arm torn off by a bear at a zoo in China's Henan province after he jumped past the guard rail and reached inside the cage to feed the animal. 
 
 In December last year, a keeper at Shanghai zoo was mauled to death by a tiger after he entered its enclosure to clean it.
– Bronx Zoo officials say they won't euthanize a tiger that mauled an apparently suicidal visitor yesterday. The 25-year-old victim survived, though the Daily News says he might lose one of his legs. He horrified fellow riders on the zoo's monorail when he jumped off the ride and into the tigers' den. There, a 400-pound male Siberian tiger mauled him until zookeepers moved the animal away with a fire extinguisher, reports AP. The man then rolled under an electrified wire to safety. "The tiger did nothing wrong," said the zoo's director. "When someone is determined to do something harmful to themselves it's very hard to stop that." The New York Post and others have identified the victim as David Villalobos and note that his Facebook page shows that he's an animal lover. In fact, he posted a photo of a mother tiger licking its baby this week. Villalobos was in stable condition this morning.