--- description: A family at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium cut their visit short to the gorilla exhibition short after one silverback, evidently in no mood for guests, charged the glass partition, putting several cracks in the pane. title: Watch This Gorilla Test Zoo's Shatter-Proof Glass With His Fists image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch This Gorilla Test a Zoo's Shatter-Proof Glass With His Fists  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 17, 2015 8:44 PM CUT  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 17, 2015 8:44 PM CUT A family at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium cut their visit to the gorilla exhibition short after one silverback, evidently in no mood for guests, charged the glass partition, putting several cracks in the pane. The footage of the close encounter has racked up almost 1.7 million views since it was [uploaded](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK67kaMWN-8&feature=youtu.be "undefined") to YouTube on Thursday. Zoo officials [told](http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/zoo/gorilla-cracks-glass-at-henry-doorly-zoo-video-catches-fire/article%5Fc1f3b9be-e510-11e4-81cc-c7eed314fe32.html "undefined") the Omaha _World-Herald_ that the gorilla’s behavior was nothing out of the ordinary, and that the glass was triple-layered, “so there was no danger it would fall out.” So it only resembled the worst nightmare of zoo goers everywhere. _Read next:_ [_40-Pound Wolverine Chews Through Cage at Airport_](http://time.com/3825140/wolverine-newark/?iid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/autoplay/?xid=spl-fullbrief-article "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3827115/gorilla-glass-zoo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3827115/gorilla-glass-zoo/"},"headline":"Watch This Gorilla Test a Zoo's Shatter-Proof Glass With His Fists","datePublished":"2015-04-17T20:44:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:53.509Z","description":"Captivity, shmaptivity","url":"https://time.com/3827115/gorilla-glass-zoo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Kedmey","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3827115/gorilla-glass-zoo/","name":"Watch This Gorilla Test a Zoo's Shatter-Proof Glass With His Fists"}}]}] ```