Article: Animals could teach us a lot about ourselves: if gorillas can respond with compassion for one of us, what does this tell us about ourselves?(Column)

Binti-Jua is a heroine in the area. In case you haven't heard about her, Binti-Jua is 160-pound female gorilla who lives in the Brookfield Zoo in a suburb of Chicago. This zoo prides itself on creating natural settings for its animals. For example, the Tropic World gorilla area is constructed to look like a tropical forest in which humans peer down from paths and bridges at trees growing in a rocky pit below. This construction proved dangerous recently for a three-year-old boy. Running ahead of his family, he climbed over the bamboo fencing and tumbled 25 feet,into the pit, striking himself on the jagged rocks as he fell.

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