Silverback Gorilla Research Paper

Harambe, a 17-year-old silverback gorilla at Cincinnati zoo was killed shortly after his birthday due to some distracted parents and their three-year-old child. Ever since the murder of Harambe, there has been worldwide discussion whether it was really necessary to kill the endangered silverback gorilla. According to spectators the gorilla was just trying to protect the child from all the commotion going on, with everyone screaming and yelling. Harambe was simply disorientated and frightened. All he was trying to do was calm the child down and shelter him from all the screaming people above. Harambe was not the one at fault in this situation, yet he had to pay with his life.
Gorillas are not vicious and aggressive animals! A few incidents …show more content…
The whole incident happened because the child managed to climb over the barrier and fall into the gorilla’s enclosure. This was partly the zoo’s fault as the fence blocking the enclosure was described by a news reporter as a ‘baby door usually found on steps.’ With such a low fence anyone could get over with ease, in the zoo’s defense a zookeeper stated that ‘The zoo is trying to minimize on visible fencing in attempt to have a richer photography experience.’ This is a valid argument; however, it is no reason to slacken on the safety of the enclosure. Putting aside the safety flaws of the enclosure, Isiah’s parents should have kept a closer eye on him, and ‘the zoo is no place for kids to play,’ one of the commenters said. The parents Michelle Gregg and Deonne Dickerson have four children, youngest of which it three-years-old. Yet the parents failed keep an eye on their youngest child who managed to end up in Harambe’s enclosure. I believe this is completely the parents fault, and if they had paid attention to their son none of this would have happened. Witnesses say that the child was telling his mum that he ‘wanted to swim in the water’, but the mother just ignored her child. Only to find moments later that little Isiah had already taken a three meter fall into the shallow water. According to the mother she was ‘comforting one of her other kids and when [she] turned around, he was already in there.’ Parents need to be more careful around animals with children as a zoo is no place to play, we lost a young and precious male silverback all due to the carelessness of some

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