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

Leena, when the motion alert opened automatically on the monitor. Tom stood alone in the keeper corridor, wearing his old canvas vest and carrying nothing in his hands. Winston was already awake on the other side of the training wall.

Tom did not enter the work sequence. He did not pick up a bucket or check a latch. He simply stepped to the mesh and continue reading …