30 years ago a giant ape saved a tiny boy when he fell into a zoo enclosure. Now he shares his story. On August 30 1986 Levan Merritt was knocked unconscious when he fell 20 feet into a gorilla’s ...

In 1986, a 5-year-old British boy named Levan Merritt fell 12 feet onto a concrete strip in the gorilla enclosure. Knocked unconscious, the boy lay motionless while gorillas lumbered toward him. As a ...

Jambo the gorilla reaches out to touch five-year-old Levan Merritt who fell into the gorilla enclosure at the Jersey Zoo on Aug. 30, 1986. YouTube In 1986, another gorilla became famous around the ...

Before the Cincinnati Zoo tragedy involving a little boy and a giant gorilla, there have been other, similar encounters that ended without the primate being shot to death. In 1986, a 5-year-old ...