Zoo officials plan to build a glass-walled cage to display Little Joe, a gorilla who escaped three years ago and mauled a 2-year-old girl, reported The Associated Press. The new cage, with a mesh cap of woven steel and triple-layer glass walls, is part of $2.3 million (¤1.79 million) renovation of the exhibition space inside the Franklin Park Zoo's Tropical Forest building. The renovation will display all seven of the zoo's gorillas, including Little Joe and another male, Okpara, who have been kept out of the public eye to prevent another escape. In September 2003, Joe leapt out of the exhibit in his second escape in two months. Joe reached the zoo pavilion and attacked 2-year-old Nia Scott and an off-duty zoo employee, Courtney Roberson, 18. They suffered cuts and bruises after Joe threw both to the ground and dragged them. Joe was loose in the neighborhood for more than two hours before police subdued him with tranquilizer darts.
