Haramb Research Paper

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Zoos are not a place to imprison animals. Harambe was a large 17 year old, Western lowland gorilla. On May 18, 2016 a 4 year old boy got curious and ventured into the gorilla enclosure. Harambe saw the boy fall in the moat and dragged him out of the water by his leg. The child spent at least 10 minutes in the enclosure and if Harambe had an intention to kill or harm the kid, he would have done it when the boy fell. There was even a video of Harambe holding hands with the boy. Witnesses claim that Harambe took the little boy to the highest point of the enclosure so the zookeepers could retrieve him. Harambe was fatally shot because the boy was thought to be in danger. That’s only one example of an animal shot dead because they were in a zoo. …show more content…

Once the man entered the enclosure, he started to bother the lions. He stripped off all his clothes before he got into the enclosure and police found a suicide note in his pants pocket. He started to throw rocks and whatever he could find at the lions and yelled very religious proverbs at them. Obviously the lions felt threatened and they attacked the man. The male lion was dragging the man to the den when police shot and killed both the lions on the spot. The innocent lions were murdered to save a man who wanted to end his own life. Another case of an animal being shot for no reason was Marius the giraffe. Marius was a beautiful male giraffe that lived in the Copenhagen zoo in Denmark. "Our giraffes are part of an international breeding program, which has a purpose of ensuring a sound and healthy population of giraffes," said Bengt Holst, scientific director at Copenhagen Zoo. Marius was “genetically unstable”. They were trying to avoid inbreeding. Marius was born due to inbreeding itself, people were afraid since he has a higher chance of inbreeding that the giraffes wouldn’t have a balanced population. He was a perfectly healthy giraffe. The zoo got a lot offers from other zoos to adopt Marius, their was also

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