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Associated Press

A silverback gorilla escaped from an enclosure at London Zoo Thursday, sparking a frantic search by keepers and armed police. Some visitors were locked down in a cafeteria until the animal was sedated and recaptured.
The male gorilla, Kumbuka, was subdued by a tranquiliser gun and recaptured within an hour, zoo officials said.
Malcolm Fitzpatrick, the zoo’s curator of mammals, said there were no injuries to visitors or zoo workers, adding that Kumbuka recovered quickly.
“I’m happy to report he’s actually up and grumbling and interacting with the rest of his gorilla family,” Fitzpatrick said.
ever made it into the parts of the zoo where about 100 visitors remained near closing time late Thursday afternoon.
The gorilla’s escape is being investigated by zoo officials. There were eyewitness reports indicating he was agitated before he escaped from the zoo’s Gorilla Kingdom attraction.
‘Justice for Harambe’: Outrage at killing of gorilla after four-year-old boy falls into his enclosure at zoo
The zoo, inside Regent’s Park in a crowded London neighbourhood, houses at least seven gorillas. Its website describes Kumbuka as a western lowland gorilla who has fathered two children since 2014.
Eyewitnesses said Kumbuka banged on the walls of his enclosure before he got out.
Jonny Briers, 22, told the Evening Standard newspaper he observed the gorilla charging at the glass at the end of its enclosure, but that the glass didn’t break.
Briers said he heard a siren go off shortly afterward and saw zookeepers running from the scene and telling visitors to get inside.
“We went into the aquarium, and they locked the doors,” he said.
Witness Brad Evans told BBC Radio that he was drinking coffee in the zoo cafeteria when zoo workers told visitors they were locked in and couldn’t leave because a gorilla had gotten out of its enclosure.
He said armed police quickly arrived and that customers were allowed to leave the zoo shortly later.
In May, Harambe the gorilla was shot dead at the Cincinnati Zoo after it grabbed a four-year-old boy who had fallen into a moat.
In 2007, a 200kg gorilla escaped from an enclosure and ran amok at a Rotterdam zoo in the Netherlands, biting one woman and dragging her around before he was finally subdued.
The Diergaarde Blijdorp zoo was evacuated and the 11-year-old gorilla, named Bokito, was eventually contained in a restaurant within the park.


Gorilla escapes London Zoo enclosure before being tranquilised and recaptured

Kumbuka the gorilla was said to have been agitatedly banging on the glass walls of his enclosure at London Zoo before escaping. Photo: London Zoo

Police and evacuated visitors stand outside London Zoo after a gorilla escaped in London, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. London police say an incident involving a gorilla that escaped from its enclosure at the London Zoon has been concluded. There are reports the animal was subdued Thursday with a tranquilizer gun and recaptured. There were no initial reports of injuries. (Lynne Chapman via AP)

Blame the ugly tradition of zoos for Harambe the gorilla’s killing

A sympathy card lies at the feet of a gorilla statue outside the Gorilla World exhibit at the Cincinnati zoo where a male gorilla named Harambe was killed, for fear he would hurt a young boy who had fallen into his enclosure. Photo: AP

A toad sits at the Buford Foundation Ranch, one of three locations volunteers and members of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gathered at on Wednesday, June 1, 2016, to release adult Wyoming toads from the Saratoga National Fish Hatchery as part of the 2014 Cooperative Recovery Initiative project, near Laramie, Wyo. Wildlife officials are releasing more than 900 toads in Wyoming, saying they could help researchers find ways for the endangered species and other amphibians to resist a devastating fungus. (Jeremy Martin/Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

File-In this Feb. 12, 2013, file photo, Lisa Ashburn, supervisor of large mammals at the Blank Park Zoo, shows some affection to Kiano, a male Black Rhinoceros, in Des Moines. Ayana, the female, and Kiano, eastern black rhinos at Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, are expecting a baby in late October or early November. Ayana's pregnancy is the first confirmed among the eastern black rhino zoo population in almost two years, experts say, marking a major turning point in the species' decades long decline. (Bryon Houlgrave/The Des Moines Register via AP)

Harambe lives, online: killed zoo gorilla gets a second life as an internet meme

FILE - In this May 30, 2016 file photo, Alesia Buttrey, of Cincinnati, holds a sign with a picture of the gorilla Harambe during a vigil in his honor outside the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, in Cincinnati. Harambe, the Ohio zoo gorilla shot and killed after a 3-year-old boy got into his enclosure, has taken on life after death. The late 17-year-old great ape has shown up in tongue-in-cheek petitions to rename the hometown Cincinnati Bengals, to add his face to Mount Rushmore or the Lincoln Memorial, and to put him on the dollar bill. He has grown the angel wings and halo of a deity in social media memorials. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Harambe takes his place alongside the greatest US presidents on Mount Rushmore. Photo: Twitter / Fred Delicious

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