Recently, two lions at Santiago zoo were senselessly killed to save a suicidal man. However, another zoo creature needs to be sacrificed for the life of a four-year-old boy who fell into a moat inside a gorilla exhibit.
An endangered 400-pound western lowland gorilla named Harambe, who just turned 17, was shot dead by Cincinnati Zoo officials.
The incident led to the killing of the gorilla after the kid fell 10 to 12 feet into the enclosure and was dragged by the silverback ape for about 10 minutes. However, witnesses claimed that Harambe was not hurting the boy but simply trying to protect him.
According to the investigators, they believe the young lad crawled through a railing barrier and fell into the gorilla exhibit’s moat.
Kim O’Connor, one of the witnesses said that, “The small child said he wanted to get in the water before the incident, to which the mother, who was also watching several other children, replied: ‘No, you’re not, no, you’re not.”
Footage taken from another visitor shows the gorilla grabbing onto the boy’s shirt.
And dragging him through the water leading the onlookers into panic.
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