Accidents happen, authorities made right choice to save the child
The mother at the Cincinnati Zoo kept her cool and acted wisely in the face of certain danger. Zookeepers also worked swiftly, facing the Hobson’s choice of killing a gorilla to save a toddler.
OTTAWA—I once fed a sucker to a gorilla.
It sounds bizarre in the telling, but it is true. The gorilla resided in New York’s Central Park Zoo, and my family was in visiting an uncle who lived there in the late fifties.
We had just purchased very large, swirled lollipops and were strolling thro...
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