The Cincinnati Zoo said on Thursday it has reevaluated its Gorilla World exhibit and will modify the railing that surrounds it.
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Cincinnati police investigated Saturday’s incident to determine if criminal charges are warranted against the boy’s mother for not preventing him from slipping through the barrier.
On Wednesday, the boy’s family said he had a checkup by his doctor and “is still doing well”.
The child came into close contact with endangered ape Harambe, and the United States zoo took the decision to shoot dead the gorilla.
The boy’s breach of a gorilla exhibit at the zoo, leading authorities to fatally shoot the gorilla to protect the child, has focused attention on zoo enclosures and security.
He added that it would take the child a fair bit of time to have climbed over a fence, walk over a planter and then fall into the moat. The zoo’s risky animal response team killed the 17-year-old endangered western lowland gorilla after concluding the boy’s life was in danger.
It showed a three foot high barrier which parenting experts said a child could easily overcome.
The exhibit will reopen June 7.
The new barrier is 42 inches (107 cm) high with wood beams at the top and bottom and knotted rope netting, the zoo said in a statement.
A spokesman for Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters (DEE’-turs) says Cincinnati police have concluded their probe. Deters will hold a Monday afternoon news conference, said spokeswoman Julie Wilson.
The woman, identified in United States media as Michelle Gregg, repeatedly tells her son to “be calm” during the incident at Cincinnati Zoo.
Anonymous has officially launched a campaign against Michelle Gregg, the mother of the 4-year-old toddler who fell into a gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo last week, which lead to one of the zoo’s gorillas, Harambe, being shot and killed.
“He’s dragging my son”. As she pleads for help, she shouts at her son repeatedly: “Be calm!”
The zoo’s risky animal response team shot and killed the gorilla within 10 minutes to protect the boy after he dropped some 15 feet into a moat.
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The family, whose name has been withheld by police, has declined to comment on the investigation.
