FROM NY POST: A massive gorilla was seen charging at the wall of its enclosure at a California zoo, smashing a portion of a thick glass panel in front of horrified onlookers, shocking video captured.
Denny, a 10-year-old western lowland gorilla, shattered one layer of a three-layered tempered glass panel at the San Diego Zoo’s gorilla forest habitat on Saturday, zoo officials confirmed in a statement to The Post.
Footage obtained by CBS8 captured him catapulting toward the glass wall, causing several onlookers to gasp and scream as they walked away from the habitat.
Visitors were quick to investigate the enclosure after the smashing session.
Happily, Denny was unhurt.
“It is common for male gorillas, especially in adolescence, to express these types of behaviors. Bursts of energy, charging, dragging items, or running sideways are all natural for a young male,” a spokesperson for the San Diego Zoo said.
Dr. Erin Riley, an anthropology professor at San Diego State University, said Denny’s grief for the loss of his brother, Maka, who recently died in August from a sudden cardiac event, may have been a factor.
“Gorillas, particularly males, will often do what we call ‘charging displays,’ as a kind of an act – of like, showing off,” Riley told CBS8. “What I don’t know, of course, since I wasn’t there, is whether or not there was something that kind of provoked that display behavior.”
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Eyewitness video captured the heart-stopping moment a gorilla rushed the glass at a viewing enclosure in San Diego Zoo, leaving it cracked and startling bystanders. pic.twitter.com/jzIKAiYcsN
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