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You wanna see the gorilla really dragging the boy... something the news media is purposely not showing us because it wants sympathy for the f-ing animal rather than the parents and the boy?!
Here you go. Enjoy yourselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJmz5jRlcGk
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No, nobody is purposely doing anything. They showed it on NBC news tonight at 6:30. gorilla dragging the boy around. By now I'm sure all the other news channels reporting this has the more detailed footage. Our local news didn't cover it up either the day it happened. They didn't have video but they did show eyewitness reports that said the gorilla dragged the boy around. It all depends upon what information the different Media stations had when first reported.
From what several people who were there said, the boy kept telling his mom he "wanted to go in the water" meaning the moat around the gorilla compound. The mother kept saying no to him. She had other children she was watching when he slipped away and somehow crawled into the enclosure and then fell into the moat.
You wanna see the gorilla really dragging the boy... something the news media is purposely not showing us because it wants sympathy for the f-ing animal rather than the parents and the boy?!
Argue this!
Why is sympathy necessary for the child's parent or person in charge of his care? It is not necessary. Whoever was responsible for the child chose to be inattentive and irresponsible. The end result is the child sustaining injuries and a gorilla killed. Bad choices come with consequences. People need to get over it.
Stupid mankind, if the irresponsible crap parents had control their little kid, none of his would have happened. The innocent one here is the gorilla- ONLY. Not the kid or his parents, are even more stupid.
A parent or the guardian of a child has a legal duty to exercise reasonable supervision of that child. It would appear that that wasn't done here or the kid couldn't have gotten into the gorilla cage.
The zoo would have a right to bring a civil lawsuit against the mother of the child and ask for an award of enough monetary damages to pay for a new gorilla.
I personally hope the zoo does sue this parent and attempts to hold them accountable. Maybe it will encourage other parents in similar situations to keep closer tabs on their kids.
Soon, there will be no zoos. The lives of animals can't be protected from humans who threaten their habitat in the wild or in captivity. We are a selfish species.
Please dont put us all in that category..... I would hope myself TO NOT EVER DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS!!
i think zoos should have to make all animal enclosures completely impossible for humans to in any way come in contact with any of the animals. or at least all of the animals that are able to harm or kill a person. i don't know exactly how they would/could do that. but it just seems like this would be the best way to stop future tragedies like this. sad
But, anyone who has ever cared for kids that age knows that the little buggers can slip away with in the blink of an eye, and it takes superhuman effort to keep track of them, sometimes.
And yet, in all the years that gorilla exhibit has been at the Cincinnati Zoo, every other caregiver has found a way to keep their child safe from the gorillas. But I guess its just been a bunch of superhumans visiting that zoo (and zoos all across the country) up until now.
i think zoos should have to make all animal enclosures completely impossible for humans to in any way come in contact with any of the animals. or at least all of the animals that are able to harm or kill a person. i don't know exactly how they would/could do that. but it just seems like this would be the best way to stop future tragedies like this. sad
It's entirely possible. It what zoos did when I was a kid, they kept the animals in cages.
But then animal behaviorists became enlightened and started helping zoos to create natural habitats to keep the animals happy and healthy and so people could see that their natural environment looked like.
The cages were there to protect people from the animals. Now they may have to be revived to protect the animals from people.
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