Bokito (Gorilla)

Bokito (born 14 March 1996 in Berlin) is a male Western Gorilla.

After his birth in the zoo of Berlin, he was rejected by his mother and reared by human caregivers M'penzi. In August 2005, he was brought to the zoo Blijdorp in Rotterdam, where he has lived ever since. As a dominant silverback his family, he has been fathered six offspring, all female, five of whom are still alive.

The grandson of the late 2008 Matze gained a wider, even international recognition, especially by the second in 2007 for his escape attempts.

Outbreaks

• In the summer of 2004 Bokito climbed over a three -meter-high wall of his enclosure in Berlin, but could be brought back without any problems.
• On 18 May 2007, he overcame the four -meter-wide ditch his Rotterdam enclosure and attacked a 57 -year-old Zoobesucherin which he taught several bites and fractures. Then ran Bokito in a restaurant where he caused great panic before he could be stunned with a gun. The reason for the systematic attack on the woman suspected their emotional relationship with colored Bokito. She had visited him before almost every day and always resumed against the advice of Zoopersonals eye contact with him.

Others

" Bokitoproof " is a Dutch word for " resistant to extreme vandalism " and was word of the year 2007.