It’s almost a comic book like panic.
It might have taken nerves of steel but here’s what I would have done, assuming Harambe was the only gorilla out in the exhibit. Told the boy’s mother to go in there (through the zoo keeper door) and take the boy in her arms, covered by the sniper aimed at Harambe in case of any monkey business.
Might have saved the gorilla. There are a lot of accounts of gorillas showing kindness to humans who come in good will.
I would have given it a try, not trusting the idiot mom. They just needed a distraction.
Have you seen the video? This wasn’t one of those instances where a female gorilla is protective of a child. This male had a new toy to play with...roughly. I don’t think he would have given his toy up.
“It might have taken nerves of steel but here’s what I would have done, assuming Harambe was the only gorilla out in the exhibit. Told the boy’s mother to go in there (through the zoo keeper door) and take the boy in her arms, covered by the sniper aimed at Harambe in case of any monkey business.”
Did you see the video? The mom up there yelling “mommy’s here” Had that been my kid I would have already been down there like the Tyrannosaurus Rex in the movie The Lost World Jurassic Park, you know the scene where “Mommy’s very angry”. Even these silverbacks, as big and bad as they are, know not to mess with a mother who wants her baby.
Everybody loves playing “Monday Morning Quarterback.”
There are a lot of accounts of gorillas showing kindness to humans who come in good will.....ummmm, name two. And Tarzan don’t count.