People Are V Mad At The Parents Of Kid Who Climbed Into Gorilla Enclosure

The big sad yarn over the weekend was Harambe the gorilla being shot by zookeepers at Cincinnati zoo in Ohio after a 4-year-old boy fell into his enclosure.

The boy had clambered through a narrow gap in the fencing around the gorilla exhibit, after which he fell several metres into the moat that surrounds the habitat. Harambe dragged the boy around for approximately ten minutes, at which point the zoo’s dangerous animal response team shot him.
The gorilla did not appear to be attacking the child, but – as you might imagine – gorillas are insanely powerful and if he became agitated he may have done harm to the boy. That’s the zoos line, anyway.
Zoo officials claim that tranquilisers would not have worked fast enough to avert a possibly dangerous situation, which is why they were forced to put the gorilla down. Cincinnati Zoo’s Facebook page posted a message earlier today to this effect:
But people are pissed off. The comments on the above post are… not particularly kind on the parents of the boy who fell into the moat.
Similar commentary is filtering through online, with many people blaming the death of the gorilla on the negligence of the parents:

There’s even a Change.org petition kicking around with over 11,000 signatures demanding that the parents be prosecuted for the death of the gorilla. So that’s the vibe right now.
Harambe was a western lowland gorilla. He was born in captivity and moved to the Ohio zoo in 2014. He had turned 17 the day prior to his death.
Source: News.com.au / Twitter.
Photo: Getty.

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