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

that we had seen the lapse than that Winston had seen it first.

The official explanation came later, in the records office, after Tom had left the ape building and Miguel had walked me through three weeks of logs without once using the word dementia.

He did not have to.

The notes were careful, probably because Miguel had written them with the same dread continue reading …