• Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 months ago

    I just remembered this recently since Lego is releasing a figure of him. Our lord and savior literally didn’t do anything wrong, he was just checking the kid and it can be seen on the video.

    When questioned about it I remember hearing something like: tranqs would anger him etc which is bullshit and shouldn’t have been used either, gorillas are known to care of human kids and they’re second closest to us after chimps and the idiots who shot him reacted like the kid fell into the crocodile or cassowary enclosure…

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      6 months ago

      Harambe was caring for the kid by dragging him like a rag doll around the moat while running and almost drowning him? Or was it the part where he slams the boys face into a concrete floor before dragging him across the enclosure by his leg again?

      Gorillas are not known to care for human kids. They could care less. All it would have taken was for the kid to look Harambe in the eye, make a movement he didn’t like, or a sound he didn’t like, and with one love tap Harambe would have sent him to the moon.

      The incident you’re probably referring to of “gorillas caring for human kids”, was one isolated event, and the gorilla only did that because she was the clan matriarch, and the zookeepers had trained her over multiple years to take her children to the rear service door if they were ever badly injured. She also had to fight off the males who tried to territorially defend against the unconscious kid.