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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)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- September 27, 1996
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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.
Zoo attendants leaped to spray water on a ...
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