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Originally posted by Kali.
Poor Gorilla. However, I do understand why they had to kill him. An animal of his size and power could have torn that child into pieces and it's possible that a tranquilizer would have made him more aggressive. The parents are entirely at fault for this incident.
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Originally posted by blairwaldorff
Some of you are literally insane and should be concerned about your mental health. The boy was four, do any of you even interact with kids? It takes a second for them to slip away. The mother could've realized that he was gone in a second but while they look for him, the kid is jumping in with the gorilla. Kids will be kids, and people get mad when parents have them on leashes
The gorilla was dragging the kid underwater, he could've easily drowned or suffered head injuries from the impact. If they shot the gorilla with a tranquilizer it would've ripped the kid to pieces, so the Zoo did the right thing.
You're sick and demented if you would sit there and watch a gorilla shred and smash a little boy to pieces.
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I agree. I'm sad that the gorilla had to die, and I do think the parents are to blame for not supervising their child properly, but the zoo did what they had to do. The gorilla was literally dragging him around like a rag doll. The boy's life was in danger and a tranquilizer takes a few minutes to kick in, so they were afraid that the gorilla would become angry from getting shot and take it out on the child. Even if the gorilla didn't appear to be attacking the boy, it only takes a split second for it to change its mind, and unfortunately the only way to save the child was to kill the gorilla.