But officials at the main United States body that oversees breeding of zoo animals said it was highly unlikely the western lowland gorilla’s contribution to the nation’s “frozen zoo” of genetic material of rare and endangered species would be used to breed.
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The Cincinnati Police Department will share its findings with Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters’ office, which will determine whether to file any charges.
“Hi my son fell in the zoo at the gorillas”.
The boy was eventually rescued after suffering a concussion and minor injuries.
A recording of the dramatic and heart-stopping moment the mother of a three-year-old boy called 911 after watching her son fall into the gorilla enclosure of a zoo in the USA has been released. Zookeepers shot Harambe soon after. He couldn’t answer the 911 dispatcher’s question of whether the gorilla had been tranquilized.
The toddler fell into the exhibit at Cincinnati Zoo on Saturday.
But Michael Budkie, of Stop Animal Exploitation Now, said the USDA should fine the zoo for having an exhibit that the public could access.
The zoo says it will look at whether it needs to reinforce the barriers even though it considers the enclosure more secure than what’s required.
Michelle Gregg, the mother of the boy who fell into a gorilla enclosure, has become the victim of online abuse.
Celebrity animal activists, including celebrities Kaley Cuoco, Piers Morgan, Katharine McPhee, Ricky Gervais and Alyssa Milano, took to social media to express their fury over the killing of an innocent animal, but the zoo continues to stand by its decision. “On top of that, the impact from the dart could agitate the animal and cause the situation to get much worse”.
As she pleads for help, she shouts at her son repeatedly: “Be calm!” They also say she didn’t needlessly put the boy in danger by taking him to the zoo, and it could be argued that she surely trusted the zoo to have an enclosure that was childproof.
“I’m never going to un-see it. But to charge someone criminally?”
In 2006, he was sentenced to one year in jail for a drug trafficking conviction, but postings on his Facebook page suggest he has turned his life around and is a proud father of four.
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“The baby is still in the water and the gorilla had it … it slammed it against the wall earlier”, she said. Since the controversial incident, outraged people have attacked a woman mistaken for the boy’s mother and created a petition, signed by over 450,000, calling for police to hold the boy’s parents accountable for Harambe’s eventual.
