Cincinnati Zoo filmed a 4-year-old boy killed on Saturday
slipped into the western lowland gorilla enclosure animals, zoo officials said
at a news conference. Harambe, a 17-year-old 400-pound gorilla in the dangerous
animal response team what zoo is considered to be life-threatening situation, the
boy around its habitat for about 10 minutes, the Cincinnati Zoo director Lord
Maynard in a press release He said at the meeting.
After the gorilla with a rifle shot, the child was taken to
Cincinnati Children's Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, members of
WKRC CNN reported. Maynard said the boy went to the emergence of the next
track, through the wire and over the moat wall. Man shot after jumping into the
lion enclosure. Two female gorillas were called out of the habitat, Thane said,
but went to the male gorilla moat, picked up the child and began dragging him
around the housing.
How to save mountain gorillas 06:37. "This child is not
being attacked, but all kinds of things can happen," Thane said. "Of
course he is in danger." Thane said zoo officials decided to use
anesthetic drugs take effect because the shooting Harambe slow. "You do
not hit him, he fell down," Thane said. "It takes a few
minutes." After captivity triggered protests Japan's oldest elephant died.
Thane said the rapid reaction zoo security team saved the boy's life, but all
of the staff at the zoo lost a rare species destroyed.
Western lowland gorilla is a critically endangered species,
according to the World Wildlife Fund website. In the wild, they can be found in
Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Central African Republic, Congo and
Equatorial Guinea. Harambe, whose birthday is Friday, was born in the Gladys
Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas, Thane said. Zoo hopes that he would
eventually father gorilla.
