By now you’re probably on the precipice of being completely and totally done with any more stories about Harambe, the gorilla who was shot dead after a child fell into his enclosure at Cincinnati Zoo. You’ve undoubtedly read the hottest takes imaginable on the ape, including this necessary angle:
Or perhaps this wonderful rumination, from American conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh:
By the way, you know there’s another factor in this, Snerdley? A lot of people think that all of us used to be apes. Don’t doubt me on this. A lot of people think that all of us used to be gorillas, and they’re looking for the missing link out there. The evolution crowd. They think we were originally apes. I’ve always had a question: If we were the original apes, then how come Harambe is still an ape, and how come he didn’t become one of us?
Yes. Yeeeeeess. Now, despite the burdensome world-weariness you probably feel over another story about Harambe, we feel like we need to give you some closure, seeing as we have covered the other major points of the story.
Here’s the update: the mother of the boy, who faced an enormous wave of online criticism for allegedly allowing her son to wander off and fall into the enclosure, won’t face any charges. Prosecutor Joe Deters confirmed that charges would not be laid, and that the boy had merely ‘scampered off’ while his mother was looking after her other three kids.
“She did not act in any way where she presented this child to some harm,” Deters said.
As expected, the mother and her family were pretty chuffed about that outcome. “This is one more step in allowing us to put this tragic episode behind us and return to our normal family life,” they said in a statement.
Gorilla World, the exhibit in which Harambe lived, is expected to reopen on Tuesday with higher barriers to hopefully prevent something like this from happening again.
Source: BBC.
Photo: Getty Images.
