Especially for Chris.
A PANDA mauled a zookeeper who put his arms through the bars of its enclosure to feed it at a zoo in northweastern China.
The zookeeper, named Zhang, needed 100 stitches after the attack at a zoo in Lanzhou, Gansu province, the Lanzhou Morning Post reported.
Zhang was feeding the panda through the enclosure when the panda, Lan Zai, grabbed his arms and started biting them and scratching his legs.
The world has gone mad! Mad, I tell you!
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A 180kg (400-pound) gorilla has escaped from its enclosure and run amok at Rotterdam zoo in the Netherlands.
Witnesses reported seeing the gorilla, a dominant male, climb the enclosure’s wall and apparently bite a woman, as well as injuring three other people.
The Diergaarde Blijdorp Zoo, which was packed with visitors on a holiday weekend, was evacuated as the gorilla was subdued by a sedative dart after it sought refuge inside a zoo building. It later reopened.
The 11-year-old gorilla, called Bokito, managed to climb a high wall to escape from his enclosure. “He got over the moat, which in itself is remarkable because gorillas can’t swim,” zoo director Ton Dorrestijn told reporters.
Visitors then described scenes of panic, as families ran screaming from the animal.
“I saw the beast running through the park with a woman behind him, him grabbing her forearm,” eyewitness Robert De Jonge told NOS radio.
The Great Escape Of Gorilla Bokito
NOTE: The woman was seriously injured by the attack. Later it became known, she was a regular visitor to the gorilla enclosure, staring the male gorilla in the eyes. Other zoo’s warn visitors NOT to stare at the gorilla’s eye to eye, as this will cause a rage. (Oui)
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."I never look a gorilla in the eyes, or any other ape for that matter, including men in pubs – look away, look away.
If both of my eyes looked in the same direction, you could look me in the eye, but alas, you could only look me in the eye. Which reminds me, having lived in West Virginia I learned that the toothbrush was invented there. If it was invented in any other state, it would have been called a teethbrush.
I apologize to all googly eyed and toothless readers. It’s the panda story and then, oh my god, a gorilla story. I’m unhinged.
Never look cheesecake in the eye either. It can be a heavy experience.
Although, on the other hand, I never met a cheesecake I didn’t like.
Assuming an attack means something up close and personal, the least desirable encounter on that list has got to be Newt. God save me from ever being in the same room with that man.
You’re right Keres, something evil this way comes indeed.
Never trust a communist bear.