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TIL that a man in 1990 jumped into the chimpanzee enclosure to save a drowning chimp. Are there other similar stories where people have jumped into an animal enclosure to save an animal?

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9axB TIL of Forgetmenot whose superpower is that everyone forgets about him even machines. he also been one of the original members of the X-Men its just that they forget about him
Oo8kX One night in 1987, a Canadian man named Kenneth Parks drove for 14 miles from his house to his in-laws. He then broke in and made his way upstairs, bludgeoning his mother-in-law with a crowbar that he’d gotten from the boot of his car before stabbing her repeatedly to death. He then proceeded to choke and stab his father-in-law, who miraculously survived. Parks then drove himself to the police station and turned himself in. It sounds like a fairly cut and dry murder case, but after going to trial, Kenneth Parks walked free. Thanks to a combination of a lack of motive, his consistent version of events, and data gathered from EEG readings, no charges were pressed against him because all evidence pointed to the unlikely and bewildering truth that Parks had been sleepwalking. It remains one of the most remarkable cases of homicidal sleepwalking in history.
78Mlp TIL that dolphins sleep with one eye open because they need to be consious in order to breathe. If they slept like humans, they would suffocate or drown.
Eg4wo TIL the average annual household income of a Broadway theater attendee is $261,000
mxgZx TIL about a place called Elan School which promised to "fix" your teenager for $40k a year. Turns out they were forced to live in squalor, physically fight, and psychologically abuse each other to earn basic privileges like food and sleep.