Exotic Incident #438

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Honolulu, HI - USA

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02/04/2002

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A part-time zookeeper trainee woman was cleaning the sleeping area of two Siamang gibbons at the Honolulu Zoo when a 34-year-old female gibbon attacked. The partition separating the keeper from the gibbons was not properly locked. It required 45 stitches to close the wounds on the keeper’s legs.