But plenty of parents also feel like Laurie Marshall, a mom of two, who said earlier this year that she has no plans to stop taking her kids to circuses, zoos and aquariums. “I don’t think we need them the way people did”.
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Zoo director Thane Maynard has repeatedly defended the shooting Saturday of the 17-year-old gorilla, as necessary to save the 4-year-old who fell into the enclosure. The station did not air portions of the video showing the gorilla dragging the boy.
“I think it’s a very tough call”, Trump stated during a press conference at Trump Tower on Tuesday. Police will then confer with prosecutors over whether charges should be filed, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said. It startled the gorilla, who began to drag the child around his living are, much like a child would drag a stuffed doll. He is home and doing just fine.
“They feel that zoos respect the animals, take good care of them and let them be”, said Kenney, a communication consultant for the anti-smoking “Truth” campaign.
“The Cincinnati Police Department is reviewing the circumstances surrounding the incident with the gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo”, police spokeswoman Tiffaney Hardy said.
“The mother was standing next to a zoo exhibit and lost track of her child for perhaps a minute or so”, Simons said in an email.
Nobody was hurt but an inspector warned members of the public could have been “at great risk for injury, harm or death”. Zoo officials said he was alert when he was transported there.
Others have called for the zoo to be held responsible for the death of the Western Lowland Gorilla, named Harambe, on Saturday. And that explanation for shooting a 12-year-old was easier to swallow for many people than the death of Harambe. The USDA and Cincinnati Zoo didn’t immediately respond Tuesday morning to requests for comment.
A 4-year-old boy climbed through a public barrier at Gorilla World at around 4pm today at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden and fell into the exhibit’s moat.
“That still means the institution itself can be challenged, even if there are honest, good-hearted people working there”, she said. In March, two polar bears wandered through an open den door into a service hallway.
He says the zoo is safe.
Parents we spoke with at Lupa Zoo said what happened is a powerful reminder to always keep a close watch on your children.
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The petition says that witnesses apparently heard the child say that he wanted to go into the enclosure and was “actively trying to breach the barriers”. He said the gorilla could crush a coconut in one hand and there was no doubt that the boy’s life was in danger.
