When the old keeper forgot one latch, the 400-pound silverback reached through the steel

The first time I wrote the word embrace in Winston’s behavior log, I put it in quotation marks. By the end of the second week, no one at Redwood Mesa Primate Sanctuary found the word comforting anymore. Winston was not a sentimental animal, at least not in the way visitors liked to imagine. He was a twenty-nine-year-old western lowland gorilla with continue reading …