Gorilla safely back in pen at Denver Zoo
Charlie the gorilla enjoyed a few moments of freedom in a behind-the-scenes service area at the Denver Zoo this afternoon.
But as soon as a handler noticed the ape had pushed through the wire mesh of his indoor holding area at about 4:50 p.m., Charlie was ready to return home as soon as his door was opened, said zoo spokeswoman Tiffany Barnhart.
“He certainly wasn’t any trouble,” she said. “He did exactly what we would have hoped he would do.”
Charlie, a 12-year-old, was outside his pen only about three minutes, she said, and was never at risk of escaping or confronting visitors.
“Charlie is resting comfortably in his bedroom,” the zoo said in a statement afterward.
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Allen Nyhuis
26 Aug 09 at 12:12 am
What Charlie illustrates well is that, whenever a zoo animal accidentally gets free, they almost always go right back to their zoo home. Why? Because they know where they are loved, fed, and well cared for. This flies in the face of the radicals who call zoos “animal prisons”.
Allen Nyhuis, Coauthor, America’s Best Zoos