NYPD seeks public’s help in tracking down Bronx Zoo ‘Lion Queen’
The NYPD is asking for the public’s help tracking and trapping the elusive “Lion Queen,” the woman who infamously hopped into two animal enclosures at the Bronx Zoo.
The cops remain on the hunt for 32-year-old Myah Autry, who has outrun them since jumping into the lion and giraffe pens at the zoo at about 5:30 p.m. on Saturday.
But as if to taunt her would-be captors, Autry has been posting animal-themed photos to her Instagram account.
One of her posts from Thursday shows Michael Jackson posing with a tiger cub; another shows Mike Tyson wearing nothing but a pair of white undies and holding a leash attached to a full-sized white tiger.
On Thursday night, police issued a media alert asking anyone with information about her whereabouts to come forward, cops said.
She’s wanted for criminal trespass, police said.
“Anyone with information in regards to the where about this individual, is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477),” the NYPD said in the alert.
Autry became an internet sensation when viral bystander video showed her inside the lion pen, dancing and waving at the deadly animal from across a moat.
Visitors at the zoo told The Post they were shocked by the footage and by Autry’s erratic behavior in the pens.
“Imagine something had happened and she’d been mauled in front of a bunch of little kids?” Kelly Hawkins, a mom from upstate New York, said Tuesday.
Andres Rivera, a 22-year-old babysitter from Westchester, said it looked like the woman in the video “was asking for it.”
“The fence is there for a reason,” Rivera said. “I don’t know if you’ve seen the new ‘Lion King’ remake, but, spoiler alert, one of the lions is killed by another lion.”