"Gorilla" on the loose in rural Alabama

ABC is reporting that authorities are "on the hunt for at least one gorilla" that was spotted in the rural Alabama town of Newbern. Another witness reported seeing what may have been a bear, but none of the sightings have yet been confirmed by home or surveillance video.

The closest zoo is nearly 100 miles away in Birmingham. Officials there confirmed that the zoo's only gorilla is present and accounted for.

So...there's a bear-sized, ape-like creature running around rural Alabama? Come on, ABC! Can't you at least mention what everyone else is thinking?