Hence the Term "Apeshit"

Just last week there was a conversation between Rybot and myself about the ferocity and ass-kicking power of nature's beasts. He's got a soft spot for baboons and I am a big fan of the ursa genus...bears, especially polar bears. While it was unresolved as to what animal was the baddest of them all, there was agreement over the insane power and danger that apes pose.

In Amsterdam today, a 400 lb silverback gorilla escaped it's enclosure and put a hurt on folks at the zoo. The 11-year-old gorilla, named Bokito, injured four, including a woman he bit and dragged around as he made his way down the visitor's path. In order to do so, he had to scale the high stone wall enclosure, but not before crossing a moat, which is amazing due to gorillas inability to swim.

Eventually, he was captured in a nearby restaurant and subdued with a tranquilizer dart, but the scene leading up to it was sheer chaos. "Everyone was in panic, running away, screaming, wailing, screaming kids running around, I don't know what all, kids without parents — it was a total drama," said a witness.

And as it turns out, a friend of Rybot added her tale of a neighbor who got mauled by chimps two years ago, which I remember when it happened. Brutal. The lesson here: that's why they're called animals.

UPDATE: See, don't mess with monkeys.

UPDATE II: See, don't mess with bears.