Have you ever been attacked by a gorilla?

Have you ever been attacked by a gorilla?

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I've never been attacked properly by a gorilla, but I have been bitten unfortunately, which is my own mistake. I was putting some bows, which is leafy branches, through some wire. It got jammed so I was pushing it through and in the meantime my other hand slipped and went up against the wire, which caused the gorilla to be a bit startled and behave as youd expect them to. The gorilla reared up and bit my hand, so I was rushed off to causality, but my hand is still intact. Funny enough that gorilla, Zaire, one of our females here, still remembers it well over 18 months later and will still now point to my hand and is very curious to look at the scars that she caused. I certainly don't hold it against her as she was just behaving like a gorilla and that's what we want gorillas to do, though we don't want them to attack us or bite us. We want them to behave naturally and she was just doing something a wild gorilla would do. So I certainly don't hold anything against her and I love her as much today as I always have.