He became the subject of considerable international media coverage after escaping from his enclosure
Wait, so their enclosure was shitty enough that the gorilla could’ve left any time but didn’t until he was provoked, and their solution wasn’t to fix the cage, but to make everyone wear silly glasses?
Bokito had been mostly raised by humans and received baths. As a result, he was attached to humans and not afraid of water, and subsequently, against expectations, was willing to leap across the ditch surrounding the former gorilla island at Blijdorp.
Wait, so their enclosure was shitty enough that the gorilla could’ve left any time but didn’t until he was provoked, and their solution wasn’t to fix the cage, but to make everyone wear silly glasses?
Gorillas can’t swim