![]() The hospital is not releasing details on his condition, but police said the boy's injuries were non-life-threatening, according to ABC affiliate WCPO. Once the child was in a safe area, he was given a full trauma assessment, and then transported to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, District Fire Chief Marc Monahan said. After the boy’s parents contacted zoo personnel and the Cincinnati Fire Department, a Dangerous Animal Response Team was formed and a decision was made to euthanize Harambe. I am against killer whale captivity.— - A 3-year-old boy escaped with serious - albeit non-life-threatening - injuries Saturday after he crawled through a barrier at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden and into a gorilla enclosure, where he was picked up by a 400-pound, 17-year-old male gorilla, the zoo said.Īfter the boy - who has not been identified - crawled through a public barrier at Gorilla World around 4 p.m., he fell about 10 to 12 feet into a moat, where he was picked up and carried around by the gorilla, named Harambe, for about 10 minutes, the zoo's director, Thane Maynard, said.Ī Cincinnati Zoo employee shot the gorilla when the child was in between his legs, and zoo employees then unlocked the gate and two firefighters quickly retrieved the child. On May 28, 2016, the 17-year-old western lowland gorilla Harambe was tragically killed at the Cincinnati Zoo after a young boy fell into the gorilla enclosure. Wild-caught elephants are still being shipped to zoos in the U.S. There is no longer adequate justification for taking whales and dolphins, elephants and apes, out of their wild homes so we can gawk at them. There have been notable exceptions where zoos bred endangered animals for successful reintroduction to the wild, perhaps the best being zoos' role in saving the California Condor and Golden Lion Tamarin monkey from extinction, and being the driving source for their recovery. But overall, zoos still take more animals from natural populations than they reintroduce to help natural populations recover. Zoos, especially in Europe and the U.S., have a much larger proportion of captive-born than wild-caught animals than ever. When animals of the wider world serve zoos, there's a problem. Zoos must serve their animals both in their enclosures and in the wider world. That's why I'm not against zoos I'm against bad zoos. Search for "gorilla conservation" and have your checkbook handy. If you think there's nothing you can do about the existential threats facing these creatures, there's news for you. Rightly shocked by the cruel and stupid "sport" of an American dentist shooting arrows into Cecil the lion, almost no one attends to the fact that free-living lions have declined about 75 percent in the last 50 years under continual lethal pressure from expanding villages, herders, and poachers. Rightly shocked by the killing of Harambe, we ignore the human expansion, habitat destruction, trapping, and poaching that have put his kind within hailing distance of total annihilation from the world. Free-living gorillas are shot so their infants can be sold on the black market, yet the universally unwanted death of zoo-born Harambe during a freak incident becomes the focus of an intense debate over the very existence of zoos. We have trouble grasping or dealing with the bigger trend. ![]() It's a quirk of human perception that the full shock of our dysfunctional relationship with the living world usually occurs to us only momentarily through bright but isolated events. ![]()
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