4 year old child falls into gorilla habitat

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People who work with large mammals, and large primates, are all saying what looks like "protection" is really an intimidation behavior.

Silverback Gorilla males have evolved to do pretty much four things:

eat
sleep
mate
and defend their territory.

The female gorilla people keep referencing from years ago had been trained to bring her own baby to the keepers for regular check ups. That's why she reacted to the human child the way she did.

Seriously, people need to stop anthropomorphizing wild animals.
And yes, I realize I'm saying that on a ninja turtle forum.