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

east of Santa Rosa. He started as a night keeper and stayed long enough to become the man people called when an animal would not shift, a lock jammed, a new hire panicked, or a grieving ape refused food.

Winston arrived not long after, though arrived was too gentle a word for it. He came in a transport crate from a failing roadside zoo outside Nevada,continue reading …