There’s been no diaries on this, so I’ll have to put my thoughts and comments into my own.
A four-year-old boy jumped into the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati zoo and was taken up by Harambe, a 17-year-old lowland gorilla (an endangered species) and at times dragged the kid from place to place. The brainless reactions and knee-jerk specieism of the Cincinnati zoo personnel to this situation was to shoot the gorilla dead.
However, from what I can tell from the cellphone video, the zoo people did absolutely the wrong things, and thus indirectly chose the ultimate outcome.
First! Why didn't the zoo immediately clear away all the people who were crowding around the enclosure? On the video I heard whooping, screams, shouts, a general cacophony of vocal noise. What was the purpose of letting people watch this unfold? Thrills for the crowd? Chances for really juicy video footage to be bought by the MSM? Totally stupid mistake on the zoo’s part.
Second! Why did they jump to the conclusion the ape was going to kill the boy? If Harambe was intent on killing the kid, he would have done so immediately. Turns out the zoo was concerned the kid would hit his head on the concrete of the enclosure when the gorilla rushed to another spot. In the video Harambe seemed more bewildered than murderous, as he watched with anxiety and bewilderment the seemingly-hostile screaming and shouting crush of humans around him.
Third! Why do people always jump to the conclusion an animal is going to kill them if one confronts them? King Kong? Monster movies? Evil wolves in Disney animated films (yet to see a wolf NOT depicted as such in their films)? Maybe because humans are naturally murderous toward anything that they can’t understand?
So we have a dead gorilla, a kid who just has scrapes and bruises, and a zoo wallowing in nationwide attention. What we don’t have is a sensible outcome.
The zoo should have immediately cleared EVERYBODY (even the kid’s parents, who obviously are pretty careless about their kids) far from the enclosure, with only trained and calm zoo personnel allowed to be seen by Harambe. The racket and movement of crowds of people can’t have calmed the gorilla down, who was facing a new situation with this small ape-like creature dropping into his world.
What would you do if suddenly faced with a screeching, howling pack of large animals that were jumping around? Would you just sit there calmly? Or would your adrenaline start flowing, would you get antsy and scared, ready to run away at any instant? It may be the animals are just doing some kind of mating ritual or something that has nothing to do with you, but how would YOU know that?
The child was in distress, obviously. Young apes that get scared climb up on the back of the bigger larger apes, holding tight between the shoulders, which then lets the adult have free movement for whatever action needs to be done and eliminates worry about the kid. This kid didn’t climb up on Harambe’s back, as instinctively the gorilla expected. However, the kid was still helpless, and with all the howling savages around as a threat, the gorilla had to take him SOMEHOW along with him as he dashed nervously from corner to corner, trying to get away from the savages. Remember, on the ground, gorillas use all four limbs to move. He’d have no idea of how to carry the kid in his arms as he ran, so he pulled him along.
But apparently thinking and preparation at the Cincinnati zoo means keeping a loaded rifle handy, just in case the “animals” forget their place. In this instance, though, I have to wonder who the “animals” really were.
So this isn’t a diary celebrating HRC as president or one proclaiming Bernie got screwed by the MSM, but as far as I’m concerned those are trifling transitory issues compared to man’s destroying countless species due to his ego.