Gorillas are Better then humans. This is very unnerving so watch with caution. But, watch the gorillas. Took awhile for the humans to jump in. Poor baby!!!! YouTube's description:The big Silver-back showed only concern for the wee fella, but a younger male gorilla went a bit spastic for a while. ANOTHER NOTE: This incident happened in 1986 at the Jersey Zoo in the Channel Islands. At the time, gorillas were widely thought of as vicious monsters; when a five-year-old boy fell into the gorilla enclosure and was knocked unconscious, people expected him to be torn limb from limb. Instead, the male gorilla stood over the boy, apparently protecting him, until human assistance arrived. News footage of this incident was shown worldwide and is credited by Gerald Durrell, then the zoo's director, with "help[ing] to change the image of the gorilla for ever".
Cite: Botting, Douglas. Gerald Durrell: the authorized biography. Carroll & Graf (New York, NY) 1999.
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