Posted on 05/28/2016 4:42:31 PM PDT by xzins
CINCINNATI – A gorilla was killed after it dragged a 3-year-old boy that fell into its enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden Saturday, Zoo Director Thane Maynard said.
The boy was hospitalized with injuries that were not life-threatening, police said.
Police and EMTs were called to the zoo at about 4 p.m. for reports that a gorilla was "slamming the child into the wall."
Maynard said the boy crawled through a barrier and landed in the moat. He was walking and splashing. Harambe, a 17-year-old male gorilla weighing more than 400 pounds, picked up the boy, Maynard said. Witnesses said the gorilla grabbed and dragged the screaming boy around the habitat for about 10 minutes.
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Personnel from the zoo's dangerous animal response team decided to put down Harambe rather than tranquilize him because the boy was in danger and the tranquilizer would not have taken effect immediately, Maynard said. Two other gorillas in the exhibit were called back inside.
Maynard called it "a life-threatening situation" for the boy. The response team shot Harambe.
Sounds like Someone wasn’t watching a child.
“Do not go in the gorilla exhibit!”
So in the span of a week, two lions and a gorilla have been put to death because of the actions of stupid humans.
Harambe to boy: I’ll show you what monkey business is, kid.
I know that zoo fairly well. That’s hard to do if someone is even barely watching the child.
Lousy parents got a majestic creature killed.
Always good advice...the parents of 3 year olds would normally be paying attention to it.
Well, careless humans, at least.
But it was the right decision in every case...
I know fur would make it more difficult but why can’t they taze the animals in these circumstances?
sounds like someone wanted a “cute” photo..
“pat the little monkey, sweetie. Oh nice monkey. Oh...”
I’m trying to imagine it, and I keep coming up with wild-eyed negligence
What a shame.
They ought to be sent a bill for the replacement gorilla.
They said the gorilla had hold of the boy and their thought was that there’s almost always a violent reaction with tranquilizing. I don’t know about tazing, but maybe it would be the same, and maybe they didn’t have that capability and time was important.
and who knows how many eagles due to wind farm nonsense.
Since someone was not looking at their child, a young Gorilla is dead, for acting as Gorillas will do. That family should be forbidden from returning to that Zoo. They may already be too traumatized.
If I was a really cynical person, I would say maybe the absentminded parent allowed the child to enter, accidentally-on-purpose, in hopes of suing the Zoo, and pocketing a few hundred thousand. Sort of ‘Crying all the way to the Bank”. But I’m sure they would’nt do something that wicked!
Can I say that?
Pat the little 400 lb. monkey?
Or the 400 lb. kitty (lion)?
Cuh-razy.
Yep. Wonder what a 400 lb gorilla in prime health goes for these days??
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