AN ENVIOUS chimp went ape and viciously attacked a zookeeper who got between him and his lady!
Romeo the chimpanzee raged when his partner, Juliet, sought to smooch employee Sergey through the glass of their enclosure at Feldman Ecopark in Lisne, Ukraine.
Eager to end her monkey business, furious Romeo began pummeling Juliet.
But when Sergey, who’s looked after the pair for six years, tried to break up the brawl, the angry animal gave him a black eye AND chomped off his ear and a few fingers!
“We did our best to save what was left,” says Andriy Kozachenko, a spokesman for the hospital that treated the battered and bloody worker.
“When Juliet kissed me through glass, Romeo became very angry,” says Sergey, who admits he shouldn’t have entered the cage but…