[ SECRET POST #3435 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3435 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Gorilla is killed when child falls into gorilla pen.

[blitzwing]

I watched the video and...I think it's really ridiculous how the gorilla is made out to be violent and "manhandling" and crap when...IT'S A GORILLA FFS. Wild animals don't treat their young as delicately as we do. It didn't look like rough or malevolent treatment to me, and the fact that the little boy was overall unharmed after the treatment bears that out.

So why did the gorilla need to be killed?

Re: Gorilla is killed when child falls into gorilla pen.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean...he was dragging the kid through water by his legs. It looked like very rough treatment and could have accidentally killed the child. And first responders said the gorilla was getting agitated and started throwing the child.

Re: Gorilla is killed when child falls into gorilla pen.

[(Anonymous)]

This didn't look like manhandling to you?

https://i.imgur.com/X7fQTwC.gif

I wouldn't like to be dragged through the water by my leg by anyone, even if it's considered "normal" treatment by the standards of another species.* And incidentally, even in the wild, male gorillas can be a threat to young gorillas. A female gorilla rarely allows a male to be that close to their babies, unattended.

It was a sad tragedy that didn't have to happen, but they had to kill that gorilla because the kid's life was more important. They couldn't tranquilize it, because tranquilizers take several minutes to work and the act of being darted may well have agitated the gorilla enough to harm or kill the kid. The longer the zoo waited, the more risk there was of serious injury and death, because they CANNOT predict how that gorilla would behave.



* Also, this isn't how gorillas normally treat their young. They do not drag them through the water or through bushes by one leg. Framing this as if it's normal gorilla behavior that just happens to be inappropriate for humans is incorrect, and even if were correct, it makes no difference because the behavior could've hurt that kid.

Re: Gorilla is killed when child falls into gorilla pen.

[blitzwing]

No, it doesn't. If he'd been "manhandled" or treated as violently as people are acting like he did, he would have had injuries.

I wouldn't like to be dragged through the water by my leg by anyone

Me neither, and that's why I don't go crawling into gorilla habitats. And if I wasn't in my right mind or was too young to know better, I would expect my family and friends to prevent me from doing that.

the kid's life was more important.

You can argue that but you have no more validity for your belief than the people claiming the gorilla's life is more important.

Re: Gorilla is killed when child falls into gorilla pen.

[(Anonymous)]

*eyeroll*