A four year old child, apparently without meaningful adult
supervision gets into a western lowlands gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati
Zoo. To protect the child, zoo personnel
are force to kill the gorilla.
Sadly after this tragedy, PETA jumps in with their anti-zoo campaign. PETA has no programs in Africa to protect or preserve gorillas in the wild. You don’t have any issue with the destruction of the gorillas’ habitat or the rampant poaching of gorillas from the wild, but you will jump on board this tragedy to boost fund raising.
Contrast PETA's self-serving publicity with the feelings of the zoo professionals devastated
by the tragedy.
Those are some of the
words the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden used in a contrite explanation
for the death of Harambe, a 17-year-old western lowland gorilla killed on
Saturday to save a boy who slipped into the zoo's habitat.
The boy, 4, was
released unhurt from a Cincinnati hospital Saturday and the zoo opened on
Sunday. Gorilla World, home to nine western lowland gorillas, was closed.
The boy was in
"imminent danger," leaving the zoo's Dangerous Animal Response Team with
no option but to shoot the gorilla, zoo director Thane Maynard said in a
statement on Facebook. Tranquilizers may not have taken effect in time to save
the boy while the dart might have agitated the animal, worsening the situation,
Maynard said.
The boy apparently
slipped through a fence and fell some 15 feet to a shallow pool in Harambe's
enclosure. Video shot by another zoo visitor showed Harambe dragging the boy
like a rag doll through the water from one end of the habitat to another.
Tragic. Even more tragic is the fact that so many people will send money to PETA instead of to conservation organizations actually working to save gorillas in the wild. Here a just a few of them:
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