Tiger footage precedes fatal attack at Yorkshire Wildlife Park
The Telegraph's short upload shows the animal resting in its enclosure, not the attack that killed William Chapman.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 209,781 views a day, 19 times a normal first day on this channel (11,263).
Tiger victim William Chapman posted video moments before attack
A tiger lies on an elevated platform beneath trees while voices can be heard nearby. This is the footage The Telegraph says William Chapman posted moments before he was killed at Yorkshire Wildlife Park.
The newspaper reports that Chapman died on Saturday after climbing down into the animal's enclosure. Its upload, titled "Tiger victim posted video moments before attack", credits Instagram for the recording. No people appear on camera, and the short sequence does not show the attack.
The clip drew roughly 164,000 views in its first 15 hours, already far beyond the channel's usual full first day for a Short. What it adds to the reporting is limited but specific: a recording of the resting tiger that The Telegraph identifies as having been posted just before the fatal incident.
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- Channel
- The Telegraph
- Subscribers
- 6,210,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 5,280,855
- Channel views, pace per day
- 881,138 (on a normal day: 858,277)
- Video published
- October 13, 2026
- Video views so far
- 164,031 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 209,781
The numbers
The clip's early audience is substantially larger than The Telegraph's usual first-day audience for Shorts.
