Posted on 05/31/2016 5:16:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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But no moment came. Right. Theres a reason for that. If you cant 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 thats 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 didnt hurt that child, critics are wondering, why didnt Harambe get the benefit of the doubt this week by Cincinnatis zookeepers? Ah, says Hanna, thats 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 its 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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Feel free to continue to wallow in your racism. Just amazing that this site allows idiots like you to continue to post.
Hildebeests are lion food!
Yes, the Zoo should improve the barrier. Yes they had no choice to shoot the gorilla. But YES, the damn mother was at fault for not watching her child. If she couldn’t manage four kids she shouldn’t have brought them alone. Maybe if she lost a 100 pounds or so she would be able to move a little faster. Her kid could have died from the fall or the gorilla, and we lost a valuable endangered species. I thought this was a conservative website? Too many excuses are made for idiots like her who don’t want to face the consequences of their negligence. If her kid grabbed a loaded gun, would you be making excuses for her?
I’m glad to know that there is one perfect parent in the word, where your children, at any point in their childhood, didn’t have any missteps that could have been tragic for somebody
Congrats on that.
Don't ever remember seeing your name in correspondence before.
Do me a favor.
Keep it that way.
Nature is not the kind, gentle, and altruistic thing that those who “think” with their emotions want to believe.
Nature, red in tooth and claw.
This ain’t Disney.
;)
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