Woman in bus kinkajou sort-of horror

A woman had to be treated by paramedics after a kinkajou, or honey bear, escaped from a zoo and then went for an hour-long ride on a bus.

Eventually, firemen had to try to rope the escaped animal to get it back to the zoo. The animal spent quite a lot of time just sniffing the noose they were trying to get round its neck.

The animal had escaped from the San Juan de Aragon Zoo in Mexico City, after which it got on the bus at around 11pm. It then spent about an hour riding on the bus, sitting next to the driver.

The animal attacked the woman when she tried to hold it.

There was some initial confusion about exactly what type of animal had got on the bus. Initially, the Red Cross said that the animal was a monkey, while some local media thought that it was a lemur. It was eventually decided, by the city's main Chapultepec Zoo, that it was a kinkajou – a relative of the raccoon.

With video showing the aftermath of the kinkajou attack.