A video has been released of a Jamaican zookeeper who was attacked while playing with a lion in a zoo cage.
On the 23rd local time, foreign media such as the British Daily Mail reported that a zookeeper bit a lion's hand at a zoo in St. Elizabeth, southwestern Jamaica on the 20th.
According to footage from the incident, the zookeeper put his hand into the cage and started petting his lion.
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The lion growled, revealing its sharp teeth, as if uncomfortably planted, but the keeper continued to stroke the lion's mane and around its mouth.
Afterwards, the zookeeper provoked the lions by beckoning them to jump.
The moment the zookeeper touched the lion's mouth again, the lion could not bear it and bit the zookeeper's finger.
The keeper screamed and struggled to get his finger out, but the angry lion did not let go of the keeper's hand.
It took 15 seconds before the zookeeper managed to get his hand out of his lion's mouth.
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According to the Jamaican Observer, a local media outlet, the zookeeper played a prank on a lion to provide a spectacle to zoo visitors, and in the accident the first segment of his right ring finger was amputated.
"At first, I thought it was a performance, so I didn't know the seriousness of the situation," said one spectator at the scene.
The Jamaica Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said that they would conduct an investigation into the matter.
(Photos and video = 'OneciaG' Twitter)