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Macaque monkey may have bitten a teenager at a store promotional event. The monkey was being tested for the herpes virus.

Two zebras broke the lock of their gate after hours and got out of their enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo. One zebra was herded back after 45 minutes, while the other had to be anesthetized.

A neighbor’s “pet” cougar bit a 4-year-old boy on the leg while its “owner” was showing the cougar to several people. At the time of the incident, the cougar was caged. The boy was treated at a hospital for scratches and puncture wounds.

A lion at the Charlotte Metro Zoo attacked and seriously injured a worker cleaning the animal’s cage. The worker suffered puncture wounds to both legs and the back of the head.

Two elephants at the Tulsa Zoo pushed on the walls of their enclosure until the fence crumpled under their weight.

A 600-lb black bear, Big Max, kept as a caged “pet,” severed the hand of a 6-year-old boy at the boy’s grandfather’s farm. The boy was attempting to rub the bear’s nose at the time of incident. The bear had been kept as a “pet” for more than 10 years. Doctors were able to reattach the boy’s hand which was connected by only about an inch and a half of skin. Big Max was euthanized and tested for rabies.

An elephant named Barbara was being led, along with some camels, to her place in the Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival parade when a marching band spooked her. Barbara bolted back to her pen with Festival Queen Sheherazade on her back. No one was injured.

A leopard attacked its trainer during a Royal Palace Circus show.

A circus elephant panicked at a high school, ran off for a quarter mile, and damaged a police car.

A man was seriously bitten by his 5-ft-long “pet” iguana. The man’s finger was gnawed to the bone.