| palou said: Considering the animal in question is fairly intelligent, I don't think it would have been unreasonable to attempt to approach the gorilla, or distract him, as shown in another video in the thread. |
The thing is it was a male Silverback. Would you as a parent want someone taking a risk of your child getting killed. Before they shot the Gorilla they waited 15 mins to see if the situation was dangerous and after that they decided that there was no other way to save this child life without putting the Gorilla down. When it comes to a human child or the animal there should be no question about saving the child life no matter who is responsible.
As for people blaming the mother and calling her all types of names, most of you probably never had kids. It really only takes seconds for a child to move out of site and there isn't one parent out there that has never got distracted while with their kids. The thing is, everyone is the greatest parent when something happens to someone else or they are the greatest critics when they never had kids. I have seen plenty of good parents have their 4 year old just run off and most times its in a place where they cannot really get hurt. I am sure none of you would think that your child could just squeeze themselves between bars at a zoo so that would be the last thing on your mind. When all is said and done it was a total tragic situation. The experts all chimmed in and said the zoo did the right thing because the child was in danger.
