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A nine-year-old boy had his arm bitten off by a black bear after attempting to feed the animal through the bars of its cage at a zoo in central China.
According to The Paper, the incident took place on Saturday afternoon at a zoo inside Pingdingshan Hebin Park in Henan province.
The boy – who has not been identified – had visited the park with his grandfather, but was reportedly exploring the zoo by himself when he came across the bear exhibit. He stuck his right arm through the bars of the bear’s cage in an attempt to feed it only for the bear to bite it off.
The boy was rushed to the local Pingdingshan Number 152 Hospital, where doctors amputated what was left of his right arm. He is now in a stable condition.

A friend of the family told the Beijing News that the surgery cost more than 20,000 yuan. The woman, surnamed Zhang, said that the zoo had offered the family 5,000 yuan in compensation for the son’s injury, but no zoo officials visited the boy in hospital.
A spokesman for the zoo said it is actively cooperating with medical staff to assist with the family’s costs.
Last year, a monkey at a zoo in Guiyang, Guizhou province attacked an eight-month-old baby, ripping off one of the boy’s testicles. The incident sparked outrage and concern over Guiyang Qianling Wildlife Park’s policy of allowing dozens of monkeys to roam freely around the grounds of the zoo.
Such incidents are not confined to China. In November 2012, a two-year-old boy died after falling into a wild dog enclosure at a zoo in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The boy’s mother had hoisted her son onto the railings of the enclosure to get a better look.


Bear bites off boy's arm at Chinese zoo

Though usually shy and cautious, Asian black bears are more aggressive toward humans than American black bears. Photo: Wikipedia

A nine-year-old boy was hospitalised after his right arm was bitten off by a bear at a zoo in Henan province. Photo: CNS

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