The gorillas suddenly rushed to attack the zoo staff, seriously injuring them

An employee at the Madrid Aquarium Zoo was hospitalized after being mauled by a gorilla after the animal passed through three layers of safety doors.

The 197kg mountain gorilla named Malabo attacked a 46-year-old female employee who had been raising it since its birth on the morning of September 27. The woman suffered head injuries, thoracic injuries, multiple fractures and broken arms. She was taken to the Madrid Clinical Hospital in a critical condition.

Madrid police went to the zoo to investigate and concluded it was an accident. Before that, the employee in the accident entered the indoor enclosure to feed the animals breakfast, clean up and prepare the facilities. When entering the security area with 3 doors, the woman encountered a 29-year-old male mountain gorilla. Officers are investigating how the animal got in. According to a statement from the police, the area where the zoo staff was attacked is not open to visitors. The zoo quickly activated the emergency alarm.

The zoo team said they removed the gorilla from the area where the attack took place. Then the vets shot him an anesthetic arrow.

The mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) is one of two subspecies of the eastern gorilla, found only in Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They are currently classified as endangered animals with a population of only about 1,000 individuals.

When the case of a 3-year-old boy falling into a gorilla cage and causing the tragic death of gorilla Harambe has not subsided, people have raised many questions about whether this 17-year-old gorilla is really Want to attack the boy? Or was Harambe just trying to protect him and see if he was okay?

Many people believe that the zoo staff’s decision was cruel to end Harambe’s life with a single shot. Perhaps, the story was painful enough for Harambe and the people involved. The question of whether there is a love between gorillas and children like that of a parent for a child cannot be clarified with just a few comments.

But in a certain corner, we have also had to admire a few times, even shed tears because of the touching story or the acts of kindness that this animal treats humans.

In 1986, five-year-old Levin Merritt also fell into a gorilla cage at the Jersey Zoo, USA. Lying on the cement floor covered with bloodstains and almost completely unconscious, Levin didn’t seem to be aware of what had happened while the zoo visitors could only scream.

Thought the boy could be killed by a large group of gorillas, but what happened made the onlookers completely amazed. Jambo – the leader gorilla with a silver back has watched over the boy, protecting Levin from the prying eyes of the other members of the herd. After using his nose to sniff Levin’s body, Jambo used his body to shield and prevent other gorillas from approaching.

After a while, when Levin woke up, the boy was very scared and cried loudly. Jambo ran away right after that. Thanks to the zookeepers who bravely jumped into the gorilla’s cage, Levin was brought out safely and no one was injured.

Ten years later, in 1996, a similar incident occurred at Brookfield Zoo in Chicago when a 3-year-old baby fell into a gorilla cage.

As soon as she saw the baby fall, a female gorilla in the pack – Binti Jua, picked up the baby. At that time, the 3-year-old boy was almost completely unconscious because of the fall from a height of 6m. Binti hugged the boy carefully and brought him close to the barn door so the staff could safely save the baby.

Many people have wondered, is there a sacred maternal love between Binti and the baby, when the gorilla thinks it is like her baby? In that breath-taking moment, what Binti did caused people to rethink the connection between animals and humans.

And in the case of Harambe, the gorilla who died last week, exactly two decades after the Brookfield Zoo incident, there is growing confidence in the animal’s genetic closeness to humans. don’t want to hurt the kids.

Harambe didn’t mean to hurt the child but was just trying to guard and protect the baby, walking with a curious part. It was the screaming crowds outside and Harambe’s over 180kg body that seemed to scare people, not the poor gorilla’s behavior.

So far, many scientists have spent their lives in the forests of Africa, living with chimpanzees and gorillas such as zoologists David Attenborough, Jane Goodall or George Schaller. They have lived and studied the behavior of these animals to find that primates and humans have a close, close relationship.