Family: Boy Who Fell Into Gorilla Enclosure Doing ‘Just Fine’

The boy who fell into an enclosure at the Cincinnati zoo and was dragged around by a gorilla is in good health and has been released from the hospital.
Family: Boy Who Fell Into Gorilla Enclosure Doing ‘Just Fine’
A boy brings flowers to put beside a statue of a gorilla outside the shuttered Gorilla World exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, Monday, May 30, 2016, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Jonathan Zhou
5/30/2016
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5/30/2016

“In an agitated situation, it may take quite a while for the tranquilizer to take effect,” said zoo director Thane Maynard. “At the instant he would be hit, he would have a dramatic response.”

The breach of the enclosure was an anomaly, Maynard said, and no other visitor had done so in the gorilla exhibit’s 38-year history.