{"id":25601,"date":"2013-07-22T20:19:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T16:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=25601"},"modified":"2013-07-22T20:19:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T16:19:21","slug":"horrifying-moment-small-boy-on-trip-to-indian-zoo-is-attacked-and-seriously-hurt-by-furious-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=25601","title":{"rendered":"Horrifying moment small boy on trip to Indian zoo is attacked and seriously hurt by furious monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/macaque-attacked-a-small-boy-at-an-Indian-zoo4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25598\" alt=\"macaque attacked a small boy at an Indian zoo4\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/macaque-attacked-a-small-boy-at-an-Indian-zoo4.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/macaque-attacked-a-small-boy-at-an-Indian-zoo4.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/macaque-attacked-a-small-boy-at-an-Indian-zoo4-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/macaque-attacked-a-small-boy-at-an-Indian-zoo4-500x296.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>An irate monkey attacked a small boy during a trip to a zoo while the child&#8217;s father and a zookeeper fought to prise them apart.<\/p>\n<p>The boy &#8211; named locally as Raghav &#8211; was seriously hurt at an animal centre in Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh, India.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures taken by a bystander show the child pinned to the floor by the primate with blood on his hands and face.<\/p>\n<p>The macaque can be seen clinging to Raghav&#8217;s back as his father ran to his rescue.<\/p>\n<p>A zookeeper, alerted by the commotion, armed himself with a yellow stick and attempts to strike the monkey &#8211; delivering several blows.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually the boy was separated from the clutches of the monkey, with the primate sprinting off still scowling and baring its teeth.<\/p>\n<p>The boy is said to have received severe injuries, according to local reports &#8211; but his current condition is not known.<\/p>\n<p>Large parts of India are plagued by monkeys who steal food, mug people and break into homes.<\/p>\n<p>It has resulted in monkey-catchers being employed to help keep them in check.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An irate monkey attacked a small boy during a trip to a zoo while the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,224,155,137],"tags":[543],"class_list":["post-25601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-india","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}