State Police have identified the person who fell 30 feet into a Franklin Park Zoo gorilla pen refashioned as a movie set as Arnold Milfort, 27, of Dorchester.

No animals were harmed in the making of Milfort's plunge, State Police report, adding:

The Herald roars about the kid who plunged into the Franklin Park Zoo gorilla enclosure made up to look like a lion den because the makers of the latest Kevin James vehicle don't think the real lion den is realistic enough or something.

Cleary Squared writes the anti-PETA publicists running the local zoos need to be taught a lesson after their killing-fields stunt over the weekend.

The Outraged Liberal doesn't go that far but writes legislators need to take a step back and carefully consider what to do about this latest plea from Zoo New England - which has been on the brink for a couple decades now - before simply giving them everything they want.

David Bernstein considers what might happen if other organizations adopted Zoo New England's tactic:

... Administrators of the Greater Boston Food Bank now say that, despite earlier predictions, they are now "reasonably confident" that state lawmakers will be spared the sight of the Charles River running thick with the corpses of Massachusetts's emaciated children this summer. In a statement released today, the Food Bank says that they can probably keep the state's most vulnerable children fed for two months on the meat from euthanized zoo animals.

The Dorchester Reporter reports that Gov. Patrick says that if the legislature overrides his veto of some funding for the Franklin Park and Stoneham zoos, he might have to cut money from a program that subsidizes health insurance for legal immigrants.

The Outraged Liberal analyzes the weekend dustup over corpses of fuzzy wild creatures, concludes:

Whoever does PR and legislative relations for Zoo New England deserves a raise. And it should come from the pocket of the folks who do crisis communications for the Patrick administration.

He notes that the zoo people have played the euthanasia card before, just not so effectively.

Patrick to zoo officials: Quit the fearmongering and we'll talk about saving the zoos.

Earlier:
Franklin Park Zoo threatens to shut down, kill some animals.

Blames state budget cuts, Globe reports.

Tom Ulrich visits the Franklin Park Zoo.

Photo, with no explanation, taken May 18.

Michael Pahre notes the passing of the Franklin Park Zoo's Mandy, but wonders if she really just died of old mandrill age. He and his daughter visited the zoo the day before her death and noticed how all the exhibits were decorated for Easter. He doesn't remember anything in particular about the unmemorable mandrill display, but:

... If there turn out to have been Easter decorations introduced to the mandrill exhibit, I expect that the investigation by the Franklin Park Zoo into the mandrill's death may have to look at the possibility that she ate something inedible. As noted by the Globe ... Mandy had a history of "chronic uterine ailments," but her death nonetheless appeared to be sudden and surprise the zookeepers. ...