The last images the flamingo probably saw on that moonlit San Diego night were gnashing teeth below a pair of tufted ears.

Surveillance footage captured images of a wild bobcat with a flamingo at facilities owned by the San Diego Zoo in the early morning hours of Dec. 12, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection report. The almost 5-year-old flamingo was later found dead with evidence it’d been chewed on by one of North America’s most prolific big, wild cats.

But the bobcats would be back for more. They had learned the corralled animals at this part of the San Diego Zoo complex were irresistible snacks.

On Dec. 16, personnel found a mauled 9-year-old magpie goose inside its zoo habitat. The necropsy – an animal autopsy – showed something had preyed on it, too. The zoo re

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