Yes, you read that right. Luckily she’s okay! Latin singer Shakira was attacked by a sea lion when the animal mistook her Blackberry device as a fish!
THR is reporting that Shakira walked away from the situation relatively unharmed.
“This afternoon I happened to see some sea lions and seals. I thought to myself how cute they were so I decided to get a bit closer than all of the other tourists and went down to a rock trying to pet them doing a baby talk while taking pictures,” Shakira wrote. “Suddenly, one of them jumped out of the water so fast and impetuously that it got about one foot away from me, looked me in the eye, roared in fury and tried to bite me.”
“I believe what happened is that it confused the shiny reflection of the blackberry I was taking these pics with, with some sort of fish,” she added. “It probably thought I was teasing it with food and then taking it away from it.”
It seems that Shakira’s brother, who was with her, jumped to her rescue just in time:
“I was paralyzed by fear and couldn’t move, I just kept eye contact with it while my brother ‘Super Tony’ jumped over me and literally saved my life, taking me away from the beast,” she said. “We both got our hands and legs scratched by the rocks while trying to protect ourselves.”
Wow! Let this be a lesson for anyone visiting a zoo with a smart phone! We’re glad Shakira made it through!
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