LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 2-year-old was taken to a hospital after being bitten by an animal at Lincoln Children’s Zoo.

Lincoln fire medics were sent to the zoo around 3:30 p.m. Sunday, and they say the child’s injury was not life-threatening.

Zoo spokesman Ryan Gross said the child was bitten by a fossa, which the zoo website describes as a catlike species from Madagascar that’s related to the mongoose family.

Gross did not provide details about how the child got so close to the fossa but says the animal had not escaped its habitat and that the child was not inside the habitat when bitten.