Cincinnati – Video Shows Gorilla Stand Over Boy After Fall

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    Cincinnati – Video from the moments after a 4-year-old boy fell into a gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo shows one of the gorillas standing over the boy in a shallow moat.

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    Frantic screaming can be heard in the background, including a woman yelling “mommy’s right here” and “mommy loves you.”

    Video taken by zoo visitors Saturday shows the 17-year-old gorilla grab at the boy before dragging him.

    Zoo officials say its special animal response team shot and killed the gorilla 10 minutes after the boy fell because they felt his life was in danger.

    Firefighters then rescued the boy who was in a hospital and is expected to recover.

    One witness says she tried to grab the boy before he fell after seeing him in bushes beyond a fence around the exhibit.


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    Logical_Abe
    Logical_Abe
    7 years ago

    I’m surprised they killed the gorilla. It looked like he wanted to help the child.

    enlightened-yid
    enlightened-yid
    7 years ago

    “Mommy loves you” Where was this mommy’s supervision when the toddler walked beyond the fence line? An innocent endangered animal had to be killed because of irresponsible parents. The mother should be punished.

    hmmmm
    hmmmm
    7 years ago

    The zoo did the right thing. And who else loves animals more than the zoo keepers.Some common sense in a politicaly correct , animals before humans society..

    7 years ago

    The fact that this toddler was unsupervised long enough for a stranger to notice him beyond the danger zone, before he even fell in, without the mother noticing, plus the mother sounding not very concerned while he was in There, point to the fact that she’s unfit.