RugbyRebels

A few days ago a 4-year-old kid fell into the gorilla's enclosure at Cincinatti zoo and the upshot was that zoo security had to shoot the 200 kg male gorilla dead. What a terrible tragedy. Gorillas are among our closest relatives, highly intelligent, and only attack in self-defence as they are not carnivorous. So who was to blame? There's a social media witch-hunt underway now with the kid's parents coming in for harrassment and hundreds of thousands of signiatures on a petition calling for their prosecution. Sure, they could have paid a bit more attention to their kid than their mobile phones, but that's hardly crime of the century, is it? My question is, how could a 4-year-old kid have climbed the wall/fence surrounding the enclosure? Obviously there should have been a much higher wall/fence surrounding the enclosure of such a potentially dangeorus animal. Therefore the zoo officials need to be held at least 95% culpable and it is they who should be prosecuted. The upshot is a gorilla is dead because of human stupidity. In fact, this calls into question the entire concept of zoos themselves. They are both cruel and immoral. Wildlife parks seem a much better idea.

That's some impressive construction. Scaled by a 4 year old child. Why does Cincinnati need gorillas?

The fence was 3 feet high, there was then a four foot section of hedge which was crawled under, then the 3 year old child fell 15' into the enclosure.

There should have been another fence the other side of the hedge imo.

The parents shoulder some responsibility obviously.

The decision to shoot the gorilla was the correct one.

Copito? I remember him well . . .

OptimisticJock wrote:

morepork wrote:Why does Cincinnati need gorillas?

Romans love themselves a bit o' bloodsport.