Woman in blond wig caught on video cavorting with lion at the Bronx Zoo
It looks like the “Lion Queen” has returned with a roar!
A crazed woman in a blond wig was captured on video in the lion enclosure at the Bronx Zoo — telling the king of the jungle that she loves him as she tossed $100 bills toward the big cat.
“I missed him so much!” says the woman — believed to be Myah Autry, the batty Brooklyn animal lover caught on camera sneaking into the lion’s den in 2019 — on Thursday afternoon in a video aired by WNBC.
“King, I love you!” she gushes.
In the footage, the woman is seen dancing in a red dress and leopard-print shawl, and holding a bouquet of roses. At one point, she makes it rain with cash — then bends over and smacks her rear end in the direction of the apex predator.
Cops said Friday that they are eying Autry in the latest cat caper. She infamously hopped a barrier and taunted a lion in the same spot two years ago, police said.
The zoo is not feline fine about the lion lover breaching the barrier — and is working with cops on the hunt for her, a zoo spokesman told The Post.
“This situation involves one individual who is determined to harass our lions with no regard for her safety, or the safety of our staff and our guests, and no regard for the well-being of the lions,” the zoo said in a statement. “We have an NYPD substation in the park and are working closely with them.”
The big-cat courter jumped a barrier at the lion exhibit Thursday but was still on the other side of a 15-foot protective moat separating the enclosure from the public, according to cops and the zoo.
“The woman did not enter the exhibit and was never in the same space as the lions which are separated from zoo visitors by a wide moat,” a zoo rep said in a statement to WNBC.
“The incident lasted only a couple of minutes, and the woman was gone when staff arrived on scene. The zoo intends to prosecute the woman for criminal trespass if she is identified,” the statement added.
Police said a caller reported a woman playing with the animal in the enclosure at around 3:45 p.m. but by the time they arrived, she had fled back into the urban jungle and was nowhere to be found.
The spectacle was similar to the incident in September 2019 in which Autry, the so-called “Lion Queen,” hopped a barrier and danced as she taunted one of the big cats at the zoo.
A woman who witnessed the latest incident said that based on Autry’s Instagram page, it appeared to be the same feline fanatic from Brooklyn, according to WNBC.
Autry, who has claimed she is a “reincarnated” lion, was arrested in November 2019 near the Barclays Center and slapped with a criminal trespass charge for the stunt.
Police were able to identify Autry at the time because she posted photos and videos of herself inside the animal enclosures.
“I fear nobody. No animal, no human, no one. So no, I wasn’t fearing of the lion because the lion loved me,” she said after the 2019 incident, according to the station. “That’s why he came to me and I let the lion know: Lion, I love you.”
Belmont resident Raul Rivera told WNBC: “I can’t believe she did it again, if it even is her. I don’t know what’s going through people’s minds.”
