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Dutch woman still likes gorilla despite attack
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18767315/

400-pound male ape who bit her at zoo 'remains my darling,' victim says

May 21: Cell phone video shows a 400-pound gorilla walking into a zoo 
restaurant after escaping from his enclave. MSNBC.com's Dara Brown 
reports.

MSNBC.com | May 21, 2007

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A 57-year-old Dutch woman who was attacked 
by a 400-pound gorilla at a Rotterdam zoo said the ape was still her 
favorite even though she felt she was going to die when he bit her.

"I go to the zoo almost every day with my husband, and we're always 
going to see Bokito. I even have pictures and videos from Berlin when 
he was only 4 months old," the woman told Dutch mass-circulation 
daily Telegraaf.

"He is and remains my darling," the paper quoted the woman as saying 
from her hospital bed, where she is being treated for bite wounds and 
a broken arm and wrist.

The 11-year-old male gorilla burst out of its enclosure on Friday and 
went on a rampage in the zoo's cafeteria before being recaptured.

People grab their children with the escaped gorilla standing nearby, 
behind the plant at right.

"I stood by the small apes in the Africa section when I heard a thud 
behind me. I turned around and there was Bokito. I had nowhere to go. 
He gripped me, sat