Patrick Karabaranga, a warden at the Virunga National Park in Congo, sits with an orphaned mountain gorilla in the gorilla sanctuary. Source: PHIL MOORE/ AFP/ Getty Images Orphaned gorilla with ranger
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1954 Back before there was an ethical treatment of animals, owners often gave the dogs, cats, cows, and apes in their care a sip (or shot) of this or that. Pictured: Phil the Gorilla pounds a beer with a zookeeper at the St. Louis Zoo in (via life)