Word: hohler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Knorke was 17 months old and a sick gorilla when Nurse Rosemarie Hohler first saw him. Bought by the West Berlin Zoo to replace Pongo, its prewar gorilla bayoneted to death by Russian soldiers, Knorke had been flown in from the French Cameroons, and had promptly fallen sick of paratyphoid fever. Zoo officials sent Knorke to the City Hospital, put the sad little ape in quarantine in a sealed-off room, and explained that paratyphoid, though usually only a mild human disorder, can be fatal to gorillas. Looking compassionately at Knorke, 24-year-old Rosemarie volunteered to go into quarantine...
...first time Nurse Hohler took Knorke in her arms, he bit her. But when night came, the baby ape acted as many human babies do. He cried whenever Rosemarie turned off the light. After that night, he whimpered like a human baby whenever she left...