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Four injured as escaped gorilla recapturedFriday 18 May 2007 One woman was taken to hospital with bite wounds on her hand and three others were injured following the escape of a male gorilla at Rotterdam's Blijdorp zoo on Friday. The zoo was crammed with people because of the holiday weekend. The silverback gorilla Bokito jumped over the ditch separating his enclosure from the public where eyewitnesses said he grabbed the woman and dragged her off. He later went into the restaurant area where he smashed glass doors. There a vet managed to tranquilise him. Two other people were injured during the evacuation and one zoo worker is suffering from shock after coming face to face with the animal. ANP reports that Bokito escaped from Berlin zoo in 2004, when he climbed over a three-metre glass wall. He was moved to Rotterdam in 2005. © DutchNews.nl Get the DutchNews.nl newsletter in your mailbox: Click here to subscribe
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Bokito's second escape attempt? This gorilla wants out bad.
His behaviour is reminiscent of that story a few years ago from the English countryside. Remember a certain bovine that broke out from the group she was being ushered into the slaughterhouse with?
As I recall, she gave her pursuers quite a run for their money too...up and down and all around the town. With the publicity such a daring escapade was bound to create, this cow's evading maneuvers brought her to the attention of an animal rights group.
And yes, they secured her freedom by paying her owners whatever amount all her prime cuts would have brought, named her "Liberty" and placed her in actual greener pastures, presumably to live the remainder of her days in grazeful peace.
Seems this silverback wants to get back to his greener pastures. Bokito has had enough of being locked up and looked at, don't you think? Isn't his recidivism crying out:
LET ME GO!
I say, return him to the mountains from whence he came. Oops? Was he born into captivity? If so, seems like he has a primeval urge to seek his freedom. If he was captured, perhaps for his own safety due to poachers, elimination of his habitat, etc., isn't it time to reconsider his circumstance?
Mr. Bokito strikes me as animal who would rather take his chances out in the wilderness (or what's left of it) than be sentenced to live the remainder of his life in a Zoo. My fellow primates, rest assured, if I was able, I'd buy Bokita his freedom.
By Barbara Horn | May 23, 2007 6:02 PM