Anyone remember the gorilla who "cradled" the little boy? - 9yrs, ago

[west3man]

http://it.news.yahoo.com/050505/38/37p7d.html

"Binti became world famous for picking up a child who fell into the gorilla exhibit and carrying him in a cradling fashion to a doorway where zoo staff could reach the boy."

Anyone remember this story from nine years, ago? I didn't. The gorilla in that story recently gave birth. I'm glad the story resurfaced.

There are better sources, but I grabbed the first reference to it that I could find. AOL had a video clip that I couldn't provide a universal link to.

[Sir Tim Drake]

I remember that. I also remember reading that the gorilla was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Intriguing People of the Year, even though it wasn't technically a person.

[west3man]

I remember that. I also remember reading that the gorilla was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Intriguing People of the Year, even though it wasn't technically a person.
Ha! Now THAT I DIDN'T know. Thx, Sir T.

[JeffreyWKramer]

They had a story on the gorilla on INSIDE EDITION Friday nite.

[thik_3rd]

binti has nothing on the ostrich that pulled me out of a burning car.

[west3man]

binti has nothing on the ostrich that pulled me out of a burning car.
It pulled its head out of the sand long enough to save you, eh?

Gotta love'em.

[Grant]

I remember that. I also remember reading that the gorilla was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Intriguing People of the Year, even though it wasn't technically a person.

Neither is Paris Hilton and I think she made last years list.

[Sir Tim Drake]

Neither is Paris Hilton and I think she made last years list.

Binti is probably more of a person than Paris Hilton is.

[Slappy san]

That's vaguely familiar. Was that the one where the kid fell into the pit and the 'rilla held the kid until she got hosed?

[MushMouth]

Interesting tidbit - the gorilla who returned that boy is related (niece if I recall correctly) to Koko, the gorilla famous for knowing sign language and loving kittens.

[Alex]

Cradled a boy is nothing, i knew a gorilla who fought plumbers.
http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/nes/b/dknes-3.gif
But the damn plumber always stole back his plumber girlfriend and won in the end.

[MushMouth]

They should do a new game that pits Mario versus DK again. And whatever happened to DK jr? All these other gorillas get to co-star in the new DK games but his own son is nowhere to be seen? Suspicious, I tell you.

[Alex]

They should do a new game that pits Mario versus DK again. A
Odd that you mention that....
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[Adam Crocker]

Cradled a boy is nothing, i knew a gorilla who fought plumbers.
http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/nes/b/dknes-3.gif
But the damn plumber always stole back his plumber girlfriend and won in the end.

Until he dumped her for that Princess. Hmph, marrying for money. He must related to John Kerry. :p

[Alex]

Until he dumped her for that Princess. Hmph, marrying for money.
She kinda looks like the princess, it could be the same one.

[west3man]

That's vaguely familiar. Was that the one where the kid fell into the pit and the 'rilla held the kid until she got hosed?
Actually, she cradled him, then took him to the area where the humans enter the gorilla area. She left him there for them, I think.

They whistled or did something else that tells the gorillas it's time to go in for the night, then they got the boy out.

[The MunchKING]

She kinda looks like the princess, it could be the same one.
Nah her name's Paula IIRC, the Princess was Peach.

[thik_3rd]

no joke but i just saw this video about a stray dog who saved an abandoned baby in kenya.

Stray Dog in Kenya Saves Abandoned Baby
By RODRIQUE NGOWI, Associated Press Writer

Mon May 9, 9:50 PM

NAIROBI, Kenya - A newborn baby abandoned in a Kenyan forest was saved by a stray dog who apparently carried her across a busy road and through a barbed wire fence to a shed where the infant was discovered nestled with a litter of puppies, witnesses said Monday.

The baby girl, named "Angel" by hospital workers, was clad in a tattered shirt and wrapped in a plastic bag when the dog found her Friday, according to Aggrey Mwalimu, owner of the shed where the baby was discovered in a poor neighborhood near the Ngong Forest in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

"When the dog picked up the baby in a dirty bag, it came and dropped her behind the wooden building where the dog has its puppies," Mwalimu told The Associated Press Monday.

The 7-pound, 4-ounce infant was taken to a hospital and "is doing well, responding to treatment. She is stable ... she is on antibiotics," said Hannah Gakuo, spokeswoman of the Kenyatta National Hospital.

The baby was found after two children reported hearing an infant's cries near their wood and corrugated metal shack.

"I followed them outside and we started looking around the compound and a nearby plot," said Mary Adhiambo, the children's mother.

They eventually found the tan mixed-breed dog lying protectively with a puppy beside the mud-splattered baby wrapped in a torn black shirt, Adhiambo said. The short-haired dog with light brown eyes has no name, residents said.

Adhiambo told the Daily Nation newspaper that she used warm water to wash the baby, cleaning the umbilical cord with rubbing alcohol, then dressed her in fresh clothes and fed her as neighbors gathered at the shack on hearing news of the discovery.

Residents took the infant to a nearby police station before taking her to the Kenyatta National Hospital, officers at the station told the AP.

Doctors believe the baby had been abandoned about two days before the dog discovered her, said Gakuo, the hospital spokeswoman.

"She cried a lot during admission, because her umbilical cord was infected," Gakuo said. "She is now very quiet. She just feeds and sleeps. I was there this morning and she looked at me and yawned, looked at me again and yawned."

Dozens of Kenyans have visited the baby, who has curly black hair, in the hospital after learning of her rescue, Gakuo said.

"She is now fine. She is warm. She is in a separate room ... with a lady who is also nursing a baby admitted in hospital for treatment," Gakuo said. "The lady is looking after her as if she is her own child."

Infant abandonment is problem in Kenya, where poverty and the inability to care for the child are blamed. Most people who abandon babies are never caught.

Officials were not able to immediately provide figures on abandoned babies, but Gakuo said that each month, about two infants are brought to the main public hospital in the capital alone.

"Abandoned babies are normally taken to the Kenyatta National Hospital because it is a public hospital," Gakuo said. "People are now donating diapers and baby clothes for this one."

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http://www.comcast.net/news/strange/index.jsp?cat=STRANGE&fn=/2005/05/10/128544.html

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

http://it.news.yahoo.com/050505/38/37p7d.html

"Binti became world famous for picking up a child who fell into the gorilla exhibit and carrying him in a cradling fashion to a doorway where zoo staff could reach the boy."

Anyone remember this story from nine years, ago? I didn't. The gorilla in that story recently gave birth. I'm glad the story resurfaced.

There are better sources, but I grabbed the first reference to it that I could find. AOL had a video clip that I couldn't provide a universal link to.

Never saw it or heard of it, and I love monkeys and gorillas heaps, but didn't feel like clicking the link.

It's funny when cat's jump off telegraph poles though after the fireman climbed up to get them, but that should really be in a different thread.

[IFdude]

Good lord has it been 9 years already? It seems like this just happened. It makes me feel old when 9 years go by that fast.


Later,

Kyle