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Binti Jua is a female western lowland gorilla. She is best known for an incident in which she saved a three year old boy who fell into her enclosure. Binti Jua (whose name means ''Daughter of Sunshine'' in Swahili) is the niece of Koko, the gorilla world famous for learning American Sign Language.
Binti is most well known for an incident which occurred on August 16, 1996, when she was eight years old. A three-year old boy climbed the wall around her zoo enclosure and fell 18 feet onto concrete below, rendering him unconscious, with a broken hand and a vicious gash on the side of his face. Binti walked to the boy's side while helpless spectators screamed, certain the gorilla would harm the child. Another larger female gorilla approached, and Binti growled.
Binti picked up the child, cradling him with her right arm as she did her own infant, gave him a few pats on the back, and carried him 18 meters (59 ft) to an access entrance, so that zoo personnel could retrieve him. Her 17-month-old baby, Koola, clutched her back throughout the incident. The boy spent four days in the hospital and recovered fully.
And in case you think we're just misunderstanding the gorilla's actions, it's actually not an isolated incident. Back in the 1980s, another kid fell into a gorilla enclosure, at Jersey Zoo. That time, the gorilla was a male silverback who watched over the unconscious boy and led away the rest of his troop when paramedics arrived.
This is not advocating zoos, but the actions and empathy of the altruistic apes that rescued a species different to their own.''
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