This was made abundantly clear nearly 20 years ago during a harrowing episode at a zoo in Rotterdam.
In turn, the shocking ordeal inspired one of the cheekiest marketing stunts of all time.
In 2007, an incident at theDiergaarde Blijdorp Zooshook the Netherlands.
Bokito in 2010. (Photo: Maarten Nijman viaWikimedia Commons,CC BY-SA 2.0)
However, when the 400-pound gorilla broke out, he didn’t go after the kids.
Instead, Bokito attacked a woman.
As for Bokito, he was barricaded before being sedated with a dart and returned to his enclosure.
She had mistakenly thought they were creating a bond.
I go to the zoo almost every day with my husband, and were always going to see Bokito.
I even have pictures and videos from Berlin when he was only 4 months old, the womantoldDe Telegraaf.
He is and remains my darling, the woman added.
They handed out glasses to zoo visitors that were designed to avoid eye contact with the gorilla.
The humorous images of the stunt show people goofily looking to the side.
