It's very sad that they shot him, and I saw some animal behaviour expert say that he wasn't likely to have intended to hurt the boy, but at the same time, hindsight is 20/20, and the zoo personnel had to make a split-second judgement call, because nobody could be
sure that the boy was safe. I find it a little rich that people on my Facebook newsfeed are suddenly animal experts and chastising the staff and calling then "incompetent" for shooting him. It was a tragic event and an endangered gorilla shouldn't had died, but there isn't really a need to find somebody to blame.
I also like the people complaining about the mother being negligent for letting the boy fall in. I saw one viral Facebook post that included this passage
Quote:
As a parent I find it incomprehensible that another parent would stand there and do nothing but scream. I would have immediately and without hesitation have jumped into that enclosure to protect my child, no matter the risks and It would not have been the gorilla that would worry me but rather the consequence of the 15-foot drop. But again as a parent I can’t even imagine how a 4-year old child was able to wander away . Was she texting someone or chatting on her cell phone?
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Lol yeah, it's so easy to sit behind a computer screen and talk about how you would
totally jump into a gorilla den to protect your kid. Bullshitters.
It's also so easy to call parents "negligent" for not being in control of all their children's movements 24/7. We all like to tell ourselves we'd never let anything like this happen, because we are responsible. Shit like this could happen to anybody, though.
I dunno, outrage culture just needs to find people to hang up to dry so that we can all pat ourselves on the back and feel better about our lives.