The gorillas, they be fierce!
Posted on 05/31/2016 5:16:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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“But no moment came.” Right. There’s a reason for that. If you can’t spare the time to watch the whole clip, skip to 3:20 below and watch from there until around 10:00. Hanna starts by talking about another gorilla-meets-child incident that’s being revisited today, an encounter in 1996 in which a three-year-old fell into the gorilla pen at a Chicago zoo — and was rescued by a female gorilla, who handed the child over to zookeepers. If that gorilla didn’t hurt that child, critics are wondering, why didn’t Harambe get the benefit of the doubt this week by Cincinnati’s zookeepers? Ah, says Hanna, that’s because the gorilla in Chicago was a female. Harambe was a silverback male. When an intruder enters the gorillas’ territory, the male asserts itself; having people shrieking at it from above while it’s confused would only further antagonize it. Hanna says the instant he saw the footage of an agitated Harambe yanking the kid roughly through the water by the foot, he knew it would have ended with the child dead had zookeepers not intervened. To give you a sense of the power the animal has, he notes that humans need a hatchet and a sledgehammer to generate the force needed to crack the shell of a green coconut. Male silverbacks can do it with their bare hands. Let that thought guide you in what lay in store for the kid.
At least one other animal expert disagrees that Harambe was a threat, but this logic is unconvincing....
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As my husband says: Make something idiot proof and they’ll just build a better idiot.
The gorillas, they be fierce!
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It’s idiot proof until we find a bigger idiot
Ha! It’s not copyrighted! I can’t steal it.
Jack Hannah heard from.
When do we hear from the other six billion people of Earth?
The same people weeping, getting angry and demanding justice for Harambe are the same ones yelling loudly in support for abortions at pro-choice rallies from end of the country to another.
They’re wild animals. Do not anthropomorphize them. They are NOT like us.
Anyone with kids know that sometimes...they get away.
. . . at least I do. Or should. Stopped at a McDonalds once with the wife and kids. The youngest was dashing across the driveway before you could say, NO! I did yell, fortunately. I was conflicted, thinking it might be best if he just got across as quick as possible. The driver of the car that hit him slammed on the brakes when he heard my call, he explained later. No harm, no foul - but he got bumped, and thrown a couple of yards. We were worried for a while.But with more than one small child to herd, to think that a moment’s inattention will not happen from time to time is utterly absurd. The zoo management has something to answer for, and the fact that all or most parking at McDonalds is across a traffic lane from their child attraction is a problem you wish they could solve. Not that I see how . . .
Man that’s funny
What I think is that, while killing the gorilla was sadly needed, why do we have zoos in America?
Removing wild critters from their home habitats into an artificially created replica with a wholly different climate to be viewed and abused by screaming idiots is no kindness: it’s cruelty. Zoos should be placed on the trash heap of history.
TC
Nothing is fool proof as fools are so ingenious.
(I originally misspelled ingenious and thought of leaving it as a joke, but I figure no one would get it.)
If they didn’t kill the gorilla who was going to step into the cage to demand the gorilla give up the kid???
I don’t know, man.
As I understand it, zoos help endangered species by providing these habitats for them to continue to exist in. I don’t know if that is true, but I’ve read that.
But also, I just remember back to when I was a kid, and much I enjoyed going to the Audubon zoo in New Orleans.
I used to go there when it was still a craptastic animal in small cages type of zoo, and I saw them over time build it into the impressive and beautiful zoo that it became.
I’ve got so many good memories from there. I never got tired of seeing the animals.
One of the best things I remember form there was going when the male lion was looking for a mate. That lion made a noise that was so loud i could feel it in my chest being about a mile away from its enclosure. That was very impressive to me as a child.
I would hate to think that children would no longer be exposed to the wonderful animals of this world.
All that being said, no service was done to the gorilla by its zoo.
I hold them primarily responsible for its death by having it in an enclosure capable of being invaded by a three year old.
That is unacceptable.
We have got to do better if we are going to have zoos.
Also, just want to add, had it been me with the rifle that day, I would have shot the gorilla too, without any hesitation at all. I support that decision, and I support that action.
And after I shot it I would have gone home and cried about it for a long time.
With someone of THAT caliber as a parent, who knows what kind of parenting was going on in that home. And when the kid told his mother he wanted to go into the water, why didn't she remove him from the area immediately?
Yes u got it. Dats me! Ha!
At first I was against the shooting of the gorilla but I’ve watched a LOT of film on this and it was clear that it was violently dragging that child around.
After due consideration I have to agree with Jack on this now.
This is the “third rail” I have been thinking about, since it happened...and the one no one is likely to touch.
Male gorillas are not particularly maternal.
The people who knew the gorilla best, who cared for it every day, shot it without hesitation in that situation. Why are everyone else questioning their judgement?
ROFL!
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