Country: China
Location: Beijing Zoo
Date: 19 September 2006
Panda: Gu Gu
Details:
Drunken man enters panda enclosure, gets bitten on both legs, bites panda back. The BBC reports:
Zhang Xinyan, 35, had drunk four draught beers before deciding to enter the Beijing Zoo pen belonging to six-year-old male panda Gu Gu.
The startled Gu Gu bit both legs of his intruder, who responded by biting “the panda on its back”, Mr Zhang was quoted by state media as saying.
Mr Zhang said he had not realised pandas could be violent.
Link: Man bites panda after zoo attack
This is the same panda and zoo involved in the later attack outlined in October 2007, China. Sucks to be a panda in the Beijing Zoo.