Lion bites off Melbourne woman's finger

A lion bit off the tip of a woman's finger and ate it at Melbourne Zoo after she climbed over a barrier next to his cage to pick flowers, the zoo's director John Gibbons said.

The attack was the second in a month by a big cat at the zoo. On November 15, a Persian leopard reached through a wire fence and badly scratched a 9-year-old schoolboy who had climbed over a safety barrier.