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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Madeline Sherratt

Baby gorilla killed by zookeeper’s error: ‘Terrible tragedy’

Eyare, a 2-year-old female western lowland gorilla, died after a zookeeper ‘mistakenly activated the wrong door’ striking her in the head - (The Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo)

A baby gorilla was killed when it was struck in the head by a door “mistakenly” activated by a zookeeper in Canada.

Eyare, a 2-year-old female western lowland gorilla, died after the keeper opened the wrong hydraulic door in error, according to the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo.

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