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In 2007, after one of their gorillas, Bokito, escaped and attacked a women who stared at him every day, the Rotterdam Zoo started handing out glasses that tricked the gorillas to avoid stare (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Found a Reddit thread about this. Some of the users further down in the comments did some digging and found this old news article. Other Redditors mentioned that they don't give out the glasses anymore, and that the glasses were mainly a marketing plot by an ad agency.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

They definitely don't give those glasses anymore and in fact, the particular gorilla has passed away as well. I believe last year

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the info, makes sense as this is from 15 years ago