Zoo Plans Glass Enclosure for Gorilla

September 4, 2006 Zoo Plans Glass Enclosure for Gorilla (AP)

Little Joe, one of the Franklin Park Zoo´s gorillas, is seen wrapped in red-white and blue streamers inside the gorilla compound, July 3, 2003, in Boston, as their tropical forest environment was decorated in celebration of the Fourth of July holiday. The Franklin Park Zoo is planning to build a glass-walled cage that allows visitors to again see the gorilla Little Joe who has been kept out of sight since he escaped three years ago and mauled a 2-year-old girl. (AP Photo/Julia Malakie, File)

(AP) -- Zoo officials plan to build a glass-walled enclosure to display Little Joe, a gorilla who escaped three years ago and mauled a 2-year-old girl.



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