A 22-year-old student was hospitalized following an attack by a giraffe at the local zoo. Ruta Greiciute and her other two friends decided to climb into a nine-year-old male giraffe's cage as a prank after having a few drinks.

However, the tall and bulky animal did not seem very impressed with the idea of someone intruding into his privacy and attacked the three student trespassers at a zoo in Lithuania on Monday night.

While the other two students were unhurt, Greiciute, a student at Kaunas Technology University, was hospitalized with a broken collar bone and nose after the giraffe, named Solut, attacked her.

AP quotes Kaunas Zoo spokeswoman Angele Grebliauskaite as saying, "This was a very silly thing they did. The scared giraffe could have stomped her to death."

It was later found that many animals at the zoo had been disturbed Monday night by the festivities of students in a nearby condominium. An investigation has been launched into the matter to find out how the drunken students entered the zoo at night and climbed the 10-foot high fence surrounding the giraffe cage.