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....
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Worked in azoo, love animals. But they had to do it. Hanna is right. The kid’s mother should face charges and the zoo needs a better fence - to protect the animals.
Heard him on Greta. Jack knows his gorillas.
So does Barrack...intimately
Duck!
The first order of business should have been to clear all non-Zoo personnel out of the area. One thing witnesses, even the zoo director, can agree on is that the scene surrounding the incident as a ‘mess’ which quickly deteriorated with the gorilla becoming more aggressive as the clamor and screaming from the crowd grew in intensity. All bystanders did was aggravate the situation. They should have been forced to leave if they didn’t self vacate.
Sorry you’re wrong. Buttcrack knows wookies, not gorillas..
Does he know who will win the SB next year...
Leftists are racists. They are outraged that Harambe was shot and killed to save a black child’s life.
“Sorry you’re wrong. Buttcrack knows wookies, not gorillas.”
Almost. She’s what a wookie would be if wookies were stupid.
Kids are fast. Unless one can show the mother was negligent, there should no charges.
I’ll bet most of the people demanding charges have never tried to raise a 4 year old themselves.
No matter how many laws you pass or fences you build accidents are still going to happen.
There is no such thing as idiot proof. There is only idiot resistant. The ingenuity of idiots knows no bounds.
I live here in Cincy and go to the zoo. While I agree there are no winners in this situation I will place blame squarely on the parents who were not supervising their children properly.
The gorilla has been in that enclosure for years with the same fence and THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of guests visit the gorillas during the year and this one kid all of a sudden is Houdini and can get through a barrier that no other kid has before. The kid tells the mother he wants to go in the water down in the gorilla habitat and she repeatedly tells him no, i would be keeping an eye on my kid who i keep saying no to.
All was well until the crowd started to get riled up and that turned the gorilla into a defensive posture.
I can only hope this family slinks away and is not heard from again. Its bad enough that the kid will have the stigma of him being responsible for the gorilla death. If the family comes out with some lawyer and threatens to sue the Zoo then things will get very ugly.
If she had only the 1 child keeping a constant eye on the child would be easier, but she has three children and all it takes is a moment of distraction for a child to get into compromising situations. This is nonsense that the mother should be charged. I love animals as well, but a 4 year old child takes presidence over any animal.
Consider this stolen!
Just shoot the father. In this society they are considered pretty much useless anyways.
I think not but none of us will ever know for sure...
(Hillary: “What damn difference does it make now, anyway!?)...no, sorry, that’s insensitive of me here, I retract it
but Hillary’s made that remark so famous... it seems to come to mind a lot... how to get it, and HER, out of mind!??????_)
Agree with the fence to protect the animals. You won’t hear any more about the parents - they are Black and don’t fit at all with the libs agenda. Probably about to find out how deep the zoo’s pockets are though. These animal rights people should go out in the wild and see how animals treat other animals. Those in the zoo have a life of luxury by comparison.
Male gorillas kill baby gorillas -— what makes anyone think a gorilla wouldn’t kill a child intruder into its territory?
Impact of Male Infanticide on the Social Structure of Mountain Gorillas
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3819382/
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