Rabid cheetah bites BBC presenter BBC presenter Simon King, best known for the Big Cat Diary programmes, was attacked by a rabid cheetah while filming in Kenya, it has emerged.
King said "all hell was let loose" during the attack.
King was filming the story of orphaned cheetah cub Toki when a wild female ran at him, leaping up at his body.
Both he and assistant Stephen Nangunye were bitten and scratched during the attack but were not badly hurt.
The men were given rabies jabs after the incident last summer. The wild cheetah later died of the disease.
"The attack was unprecedented - cheetahs just don't do this," said King in the documentary, Toki's Tale, which will be screened on BBC Two next month.
"Having spent 20 years watching cheetahs in the wild, I was utterly shocked by this female's behaviour".
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