Humans behaving badly means zoo animals die

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Anonymous wrote:I hate zoos - animals should not be put on display for our amusement. Maybe the poor gorilla is better off dead. Maybe. I don't know.

Would you be better off dead?

Possibly, if I were in a zoo like environment.

Exactly. Lock the mom and kid in a cage for public viewing and see how they like it.

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Anonymous wrote:I read one article where a witness said she heard the kid telling the mother that he wanted to go into the moat. And the mother kept saying no.

So it isn't like the kid fell in. He was *trying* to get in, and the mother knew he wanted to go in.

Yeah, it probably looked like fun. For everyone who says the a 4 year old "should have known better," or "should have minded," keep in mind that this is a little kid. He's not the equivalent of a 36 year old man who wanted to get a selfie with a rattle snake while in Yellowstone.

He's also not the first kid to get into a gorilla habitat, although the one he got into took more effort than some:

Jersey Zoo in the UK 1986

Brookfield Zoo in Chicago 1996

+1 A 4 year old literally cannot understand the danger. And 4 year olds do not have adequate impulse control. It's why a 4 year old still generally can't be trusted to cross a road alone. The parent should have been paying more attention or holding the child's hand if the enclosure was not secure c

Horse hockey. When my children were 4 yrs old they knew that when I said "no" it meant no. Kid was a damn brat and an animal is dead because of him. They should have shot the kid with a tranquilizer and the gorilla trainer could have gone in and taken him out. I won't say rescued because the gorilla was more civilized than the 4 he old brat.

When you sober up, I hope you have the good grace to regret writing this horrible post.

+1. You're a bad person and I truly hope you are lying about having children. If you're serious, your 4 year old probably knew you meant know because you were a scary, unloving, abusive asshole.

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Anonymous wrote:Totally the parents fault. However the zoo had to do what they had to do.

Yup, a kid doesn't "fall" or "slip" if he has to go "under the rail, through wires and over the moat wall..."

He climbed in under his volition b/c he's a little kid and doesn't know any better. The kid is lucky to be alive and probably traumatized so I can't believe people are advocating that he'd be punished.

I don't think the gorilla was trying to hurt him, but at 400 pounds he could have easily killed him. The child's parents should be ashamed b/c this doesn't happen in an "instant." If there are too many kids to watch at the zoo, you don't go to the zoo. They don't deserve money for being stupid.

+1

Thank you.

Sums up my feelings. Except I really wish they had tranquilized him. RIP Harambe.

[Anonymous]

PP here. The local media in that area just released the full video (dragging the child). It had not been previously released, in spite of what other PP claimed.

I can see why they had to kill the animal, however unfortunate. Regardless, the mother should have been watching the child. Period.

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I can't wait to hear what the parents have to say for themselves.

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Hmmm, critically endangered species vs 7 billion humans. I know who I am more concerned about.
And it's not the idiotic human beings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP here. The local media in that area just released the full video (dragging the child). It had not been previously released, in spite of what other PP claimed.

I can see why they had to kill the animal, however unfortunate. Regardless, the mother should have been watching the child. Period.

Do you have a link to the new video? Thanks in advance.

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Anonymous wrote:Totally the parents fault. However the zoo had to do what they had to do.

Yup, a kid doesn't "fall" or "slip" if he has to go "under the rail, through wires and over the moat wall..."

He climbed in under his volition b/c he's a little kid and doesn't know any better. The kid is lucky to be alive and probably traumatized so I can't believe people are advocating that he'd be punished.

I don't think the gorilla was trying to hurt him, but at 400 pounds he could have easily killed him. The child's parents should be ashamed b/c this doesn't happen in an "instant." If there are too many kids to watch at the zoo, you don't go to the zoo. They don't deserve money for being stupid.

+1

Thank you.

I doubt the kid is traumatized.
He probably thinks it's cool he got to see the gorilla.
He's probably up to his eyeballs in endless screentime, ice cream and new toys.
I'm sure his parents will claim severe trauma to get a few million.

[Anonymous]

I hope the zoo is loses all it's funding and is closed.
I hope the kid's parents don't get a single cent of money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Hmmm, critically endangered species vs 7 billion humans. I know who I am more concerned about.
And it's not the idiotic human beings.

A PP here, and [phone].

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I read the mother has had CPS involved in the past due to her neglect of her kids. Stupid bitch!

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I personally think the parents should have faced charges for child neglect.

Kids will always be kids thus parents need to be extra vigilant around certain places.

You cannot blame the zoo for not building a safer enclosure.
That's like suing Disneyworld because some kid fell off a carousel horse because the parent wasn't watching & their kid took off the strap and slid off and fell.

Parents need to constantly be 100% focused on their kids, especially in public.

In this case, unfortunately a gorilla had to lose his life after

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Anonymous wrote:16:08 the gorilla was killed because the kid didn't mind. The kid is alive and well to live another day to do something equally as stupid and maybe do something that will get a person killed.

Yes. A toddler who makes a mistake is destined to be a psychopath.

A 4 year old is not a toddler.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry but this is on the Zoo. You expect the animals to be properly enclosed.

The animals were properly enclosed. The 4 yr old invaded the animal's enclosure. These people should be banned for life from all zoos! If you cannot watch more than one kid then you only take one to the zoo, restaurant, etc. The gorilla was not irresponsible. The people were.

Did you look at the picture? The rails were in no way, shape or form adequate. Having animals on display to the public means the zoo takes on an added responsibility of not only making sure the animals can't get out, but that humans cannot get in.

It's crazy that people are stupid enough to go into an animal enclosure. Or that a child would be unsupervised long enough to do so.

[Anonymous]

Zoos should be illegal. Endangered animals deserve to be in their natural homes. Humans are more valuable than animals.