A 340-pound gorilla escaped Saturday from his room at the Dallas Zoo, raided the kitchen, bit a keeper and then dragged her down a hallway.
Hercules the gorilla - "basically a pretty gentle giant with a nice personality" - was captured after a veterinarian shot him with a tranquilizing dart, a zoo official said.The gorilla then was loaded on a tarp and dragged back to his room to sleep it off.
Primate keeper Jennifer McClurg, 25, received a bite on her arm and another bite or gash to her side, zoo spokeswoman Pam Deutsch said.
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Keepers weren't sure how the 33-year-old gorilla got into the kitchen in the building where he and eight other gorillas live.