Here's why the Harambe gorilla didn't have to die at the zoo (VIDEO and PETITION)

    A zoo gorilla is killed to rescue a child who has fallen into his enclosure. Are zoos really that useful and educational?

    He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him

    Il gorilla of a zoo is killed to rescue a child fallen into his enclosure. It happens to Cincinnati, in the States, where in a matter of minutes a 4-year-old child had the misfortune of flying into the ditch of just over 3 meters and finding himself face to face with lowland gorilla who was standing there blessed.





    The gorillone, of approx 180 chili, of 17 years and from the name of Harambe, it was one endangered subspecies. Once she saw the baby, she would immediately approach him, unleashing the yell out (as you can hear from the video that runs on the net in these hours) and the general panic.

    It is a pity that that child, in turn a victim of parental carelessness, was, in spite of himself, the architect of an unjust killing. Yes, because they will also have a face that seems a bit severe, the gorillas, and certainly not small tonnage, but they are still animals and as such they too have a brain, a heart and the nose of a (real) situation. of danger and threat. All the more so when it comes to a gorilla that that child probably just wanted to protect him. But anyhow: if he is already locked up in a zoo, it means that he was "Recognized" his being inferior to men, which arrogate to themselves the right to make any species grow far from their habitat and make them attractive animals.

    "The child was not under attack - the director of the zoo, Thane Maynard, hastened to say in a press conference - but he was certainly in danger". Because of this the gorilla was shot down.

    Sedate him somehow couldn't it be a valid alternative? The whole world is wondering, but according to the zoo authorities, shooting him a sedative "would not neutralize the animal immediately and could have increased the risks for the child."

    Many animal lovers are expressing their indignation towards the baby's parents on social media, accused of having let the baby end up in the fence, the common reaction is anger.



    Here's why the Harambe gorilla didn't have to die at the zoo (VIDEO and PETITION)

    But the questions to ask, perhaps, are others. Is it possible that no one, no expert, has read the gorilla's behavior as harmless? Or that no one, properly educated on the subject, was able to enter the cage and interact with the animal? Gorillas are self-aware. They love, laugh, sing, play. Lowland gorillas are delicate animals, which do not attack unless provoked. As it shows what a little bit happened in the 1986, when in a zoo on the island of Jersey, in England, a child fell into the pit of a gorilla called Jambo. Then the baby was motionless on the ground due to the impact and the big gorilla almost seemed to be watching over him (video below).

    Regarding the killing of Harambe, let's not ask ourselves so much if the tragedy could have been avoided, but: on the basis of what do zoos still exist? We went to ask the ethologist Roberto Marchesini which is clear on one point:

    "What happened at the Cincinnati Zoo is a demonstration of how zoos are structures that must absolutely be overcome, they are not educational structures, they are not structures where animals are protected in some way, but they are simply large sands where the first problem is the the simplest thing to do is to kill an animal ". So? This zoo has shown one total inability to know how to work with animals. She did not know how to read the behavior of the animal. She did not have personnel capable of entering the cage and relating to the animal. And surely, like this one, there are thousands more examples in the world. “The zoo is always a prison where the animal is mistreated. Locking them in a cage does not allow animals to express themselves for what they are ”, concludes Marchesini.



    Neurosis, stereotyped behaviors, compulsive behaviors. In addition, there are often people inside these structures absolutely inexperienced. Not to mention that captive breeding in zoos instead of preserving biodiversity becomes a factor decrease in biodiversity, because it effectively removes portions of genetic patrimony by segregating them in captivity, making them unusable for the re-bleeding of natural populations and creating artificial combinations that do not correspond to any of the types present in nature. Environmental protection, on the other hand, to be truly such, should aim at the free reintroduction of animals, which is practically impossible.

    In short, let's say it once again: like it or not, zoos are and remain a prison, a form of horrible mistreatment, a place of no life for sentient beings denied freedom. It is not correct to speak of priorities.

    Meanwhile, a petition was born on the web to ask justice for Harambe, which registered over one hundred thousand signatures in less than 24 hours. To sign it click here

    Germana Carillo

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