Following Saturday’s accident where a 3-year-old child fell into Harambe’s enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo, we’re hearing that local police are now reviewing the animal’s death to see if there’s actually a case. Police will then talk with prosecutors about whether charges are warranted, the office said.
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The Cincinnati Police Department announced Tuesday that they are investigating the parents of a child who fell into the gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo on Saturday.
The organization filed a complaint with the USDA, which regulates zoos under the Animal Welfare Act, saying the zoo was negligent and should be fined $10,000, the maximum amount under the law.
WARNING: Some viewers may find the footage disturbing. A zoo spokesman says the zoo would not change how it responded to the case. No one was injured. It also said the public would have been at great risk if the bears had got outside. The zoo’s risky animal response team shot Harambe dead about 10 minutes after he encountered the child.
Stones said he even let the gorilla sleep with him on his bed when it was a baby. He said the gorilla could crush a coconut in one hand and there was no doubt that the boy’s life was in danger.
Inspections in 2014 found several issues including the need to fix areas where monkeys and horses were housed and a camel that appeared to be badly bothered by flies.
Maynard said the zoo believed the exhibit remains safe.
The director of the Cincinnati Zoo has aid the zoo has been inspected, and all of their enclosures exceed recommendations.
“This was not a gentle thing”, Maynard said. “Otherwise, Harambe wouldn’t be dead”.
The outrage spurned by the death of silverback gorilla Harambe has resonated across the internet.
“Do you know any four-year-olds?” “After hearing this happened, I wouldn’t take my small child to the zoo”, she said. It was so attractive to watch that powerful, nearly 500-pound gorilla, the way he dealt with that little boy. “Ultimately it’s the gorilla that’s paid this price”, he said.
Goodall declined to comment further, a spokesman for the Jane Goodall Institute told TIME on Tuesday. Harambe’s species, the western lowland gorilla, is listed as “critically endangered”, making his death particularly significant. “It was fantastic because there were moments with the gorilla – the way he held that child, it was nearly like a mother holding a baby”, Trump said, fielding questions from the public in NY.
Harambe was shot this weekend after he violently dragged and tossed the child who fell into his enclosure, officials said.
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Maynard said it was the first time that the team had killed a zoo animal in such an emergency situation, and he called it “a very sad day” at the zoo.
