A five-year-old boy has been rushed to hospital after being attacked by a monkey at a zoo in northern Portugal (pictured, a monkey at Santo Inacio Zoo)
A five-year-old boy has been rushed to hospital after being attacked by a monkey at a zoo in northern Portugal.
The youngster lost a finger in the incident at Santo Inacio Zoo in Vila Nova de Gaia near Porto.
Local reports said the youngster was with his family and playing by the cage the animal was in when the incident occurred on Friday morning.
The monkey is said to have bitten the child s finger and pulled it from the rest of his hand.
Without the usual visual and auditory stimuli of the visitors, the animals of the Zoo of Santo Inácio, in Vila Nova de Gaia, had “behaviour changes”, and.