The internet has been a buzz with the news of a child falling into the enclosure of where a gorilla was being housed at the Cincinnati Zoo. Now the debate isn’t that a 4 year old fell into the gorillas enclosure the debate comes into place when the zoo kills the gorilla.
This sin’t the first time that an animal in a park/zoo has been killed over people not following the park’s/zoo’s rules. A while back there were people that were at a National Park and “thought” that a bison calf was cold, so they picked it up and put it in their SUV and brought it to the park ranger’s station.
Now, when a person leaves their scent on a “baby” animal often times the “momma” animal doesn’t want have anything to do with their own baby, because of the “human” scent on them. So, in the case of the bison calf, they killed it!!
In the case of the gorilla, because before the workers could get the child out of the gorillas “space” or get the gorilla out and away from the child, the gorilla was getting “rough” with the child. I imagine the gorilla was trying to help the child out and wasn’t intentionally hurting the child. (The child was probably bruised from the fall and wasn’t even hospitalized.) Of course the gorilla probably was probably distracted by the child in his “home” and wasn’t listening to orders that were being given to him to get out. Since the gorilla wasn’t listening to orders and they thought the gorilla was going to attack the child, they killed the gorilla!!
Just as in the incident of the bison calf, it wasn’t the bison calf’s fault that a “human” didn’t follow the parks’ rules and pick the bison calf up. Also, with the gorilla, it wasn’t the gorilla’s fault that the parents of a 4 year old wasn’t paying more attention to how close the child was. However, in both cases the animals were killed!!
Do you think in both cases the animals could have been saved? Shouldn’t people read the rules before entering a park/zoo so that incidents like these would be prevented?
In case you haven’t read/heard about the latest animal that was killed by a park/zoo, you can read about it here http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cincinnati-zoo-chief-we-saved-that-little-boys-life/ar-BBtEXIp?ocid=ansmsnnews11
~Peace~
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@JoDee Stout
I too have read this news and there was no option as one would have not known what the Gorilla would be doing with that child.
In the first place, the parents should answer why the child fell down in that cage. It is a poor thing that they had also killed the gorilla. In this way, animal rights are also violated. Well, it happens and we cannot turn back the time anymore. This incidence will be the learning process for everyone.
Yes, it is the parents'mistake why they let the children go near the gorilla cage because it does not know difference between man and animal it eats what he sees as I have heard and read in different books.
Gorillas are able to survive on vegetation such as leaves, stems, roots, vines, herbs, trees, and grasses but such vegetation has relatively low nutritional quality. Therefore, they must consume a larger quantity, but it is available year-round.
Gorillas are very selective foragers. They usually only eat parts of vegetation. For example they may eat only the leaves, pith, stalk, or roots of a particular plant. They use their agile lips and hand dexterity to manipulate the vegetation for the particular portion they want to consume.
I have read in a magazine recently that A young boy got into the gorilla enclosure and was confronted by a silverback male gorilla named Harambe. The gorilla repeatedly dragged the boy through the water. To save the boy, the zoo's staff shot and killed Harambe.