• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    Wait, a person came to a zoo every day and stared at a Gorilla?

    How many days? Did this person just go to the zoo every single day and mean mug a gorilla?

    Is this an anime plotline, a zoo employee, or is OP’s headline a bit misleading?

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      6 months ago

      Zoo employees had previously warned her against doing this, but she continued, claiming a special bond with him: in an interview with De Telegraaf she said, “When I smile at him, he smiles back”.

      If only I could have been that one employee who got to visit her in the hospital and whisper “told ya”.

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      https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dutch-gorilla-idUSL3042888320070530/

      The 180 kg (397 lb) Bokito seriously injured a woman, who it later emerged has visited the ape almost every day since his arrival at the zoo a year and a half ago

      Dutch citizens lost sympathy for the woman after it emerged that she has visited the gorilla about four times a week and said that Bokito “remains her darling” despite suffering a broken arm and wrist and around 100 bites.

      Dutch Media widely reported that the woman misunderstood what she perceived as a smile from the gorilla. Experts suggest he was more likely to have been baring his teeth as a threat.