The Cincinnati Police Department will share its findings with Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters’ office, which will determine whether to file any charges.
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The 911 call of a terrified mother who watched her young son fall into a gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo was released Wednesday afternoon. “When the investigation and review are complete, we will update the media”.
CBS also reported that the family has received extra police protection because of the ongoing backlash over the accident. The Post did not give an age for Dickerson.
Cincinnati police are investigating whether to bring charges against the child’s parents. “We’ll of course be taking a closer look at that working with Cincinnati to figure out what happened and make sure we can firm that up so it doesn’t happen again”, said to Rob Vernon, spokesman for the AZA.
Harambe, a 17-year-old, 200 kilogram silverback, was shot by officials after the boy fell into its enclosure on Saturday.
The zoo is also facing questions about the enclosure’s security, since the toddler crawled through an exhibit barrier and fell into a moat.
The Jane Goodall Institute shared an email Goodall, one of the world’s most well-known primatologists, sent to Thane Maynard following the fatal shooting of the endangered 17-year-old lowland gorilla named Harambe. I know what its like to herd cats and try to keep your eye on all of them. “We [at the zoo] are the ones who took the loss on this”.
Investigators say the boy went over a three-foot railing, then through thick bushes before falling 15 feet into the water. “There is a male gorilla standing over him”.
“She was putting kids in the strollers – there were four or five kids total – and getting ready to leave the exhibit. She didn’t have him by the hand, and at one point, he must have been behind her, out of sight”, O’Connor continued.
United States zoos are left to decide under federal rules how to make animal exhibits safe.
What zoo designers, keepers and management are ultimately trying to achieve, Janikowski says, is to give “optimum space for the animal, optimum viewing for the guest and some type of interaction while keeping everyone safe”.
Now, the mum Michelle’s 911 call from the scene of the accident last weekend has been released, and the CBS Evening News has picked it up.
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The exhibit was at the forefront of zoos moving away from cages in favor of more realistic living environments and adopting a range of exhibits, from natural habitats behind glass walls to jungle-like settings separated from the public by hedges and bamboo fences.
