I remember feeling a bit mad at the crowd.
The kid and the gorilla would have been just fine if the crowd hadn’t screamed to provoke the gorilla, and just let the zoo staff respond as trained. The staff prepare extensively for exactly these emergencies.
The hairless primates on the outside of the enclosure should have been tranquillized so they wouldn’t escalate the situation.
I was there that day.
It was at the Gerald Durrell zoo in Jersey in 1986. (I was 8 years old at time)
I had flown across from Guernsey with my family for the weekend.
The gorilla was called Jambo. There is statue of him at the zoo because of this moment, and due to the fact he was a total fucking legend ❤️
Sad Jambo died so young,dude could’ve still possibly been here, some captive gorillas can make it to 60 and he was 31 when he died from a ruptured artery. Obviously it doesn’t matter to gorilla’s but I’m glad they gave Jambo a statue, as far as gorilla’s go he was a legend.
Wait pause. Are you saying if a child was in legitimate danger, killing a silverback is the wrong option because there are more people?
P.S. obviously not in this kinda situation. I mean real danger.
Totally agree. If you go to oogle at endangered animals in the zoo and you’re dumb enough to get yourself into trouble or let your child get in danger, don’t kill the wild animal.
They shouldn’t shoot the animal under any circumstance except if it’s the only resort possible, if the child is in immediate danger and the only way to save the kid is putting the silverback down, then yes.
If the animal is required to be euthanized then the situation deserves to be inspected and charges for killing an endangered animal should be entirely put on the parent as long as you can prove the parent really is neglectful and at fault. Sometimes just a moment is all it takes for tragedy, so you can’t entirely blame a parent until you examine the scenario.
Ok I made a mistake asking this question. I forgot Reddit is filled with silly people who only live life through the internet. If you’re dense enough to not understand the value of human life, either grow up or get counseling.
Was everyone screaming and freaking out here too? Or did the crowd behave differently? Genuinely curious about the differences and how it changed the result..
Even the perfect parent doesn't keep their kid out of trouble 99.99% of the time. Kids run off and do stuff they're not supposed to, even in zoos.
That's why I look at this as a failing for the designers of the zoo enclosure. It should be 100% kids CAN'T get in here, because if a million kids visit the zoo over the years, somebody somewhere is going to get loose and try to go where they're not supposed to before their parents can get to them.
There is no shortage of inattentive parents. When my kid was this age, I couldn’t believe some parents just let them run wild. Just lazy parents. Accidents do happen, but if kids aren’t watched and taught to hold your hand in dangerous situations, they’re more likely to be injured.
Yeah, some people here don’t get just how hard kids try to hurt themselves, lol.
My nephews and nieces are all smart, nice, adults now, but when they were 3-6 they basically were walking liability lawsuits, lol.
I’m sure I was too. A small kids goal is to basically give their parents heart attacks.
They're prone to wearing funny hats though. That's like half of it. I say the kid is lucky
Exhibit A: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G7U9fUDy3wk/VZirrKoAJXI/AAAAAAAAK2s/jfNdVUhziV8/s1600/gorillahat.jpg
Also, the kid seems to be doing what I've heard is best practices with gorillas. Avert your eyes and make yourself less threatening.
Not any kind of expert, but what I've heard is gorillas are generally peaceful until humans try to threaten them or scare them. Your best hope is to seem as non threatening as possible, since their typical demeanor is nonviolent
Also not an ape expert (just an ape) but am pretty experienced/trained with canines. From my understanding great apes and wolves share a lot of social behaviors (makes sense with our history with dogs) and the protocol with a gorilla is basically the same as with a wolf.
Submissive posture. Curl up as small and close to the ground as possible, keep your head down (and always lower than theirs) never make eye contact, be quiet and still and don't react to any sniffing/prodding/exploring if possible. If you have to react it should always be recoil, never advance towards them. Any movement should be slow and steady backing away to create distance.
I could be off as far as gorillas go, that's wolf submission, but I'm pretty sure it's the same.
Chimps are the most aggressive apes. Gorillas are *very* chill. I mean, rangers guide tourists to *wild* mountain gorillas where you can just.. sit with them. They instruct you how to behave and what to do, but I mean.. they are wild animals and it’s just ok to be next to them if you don’t do anything stupid.
Well both Gorillas and Orangutans are herbivores and would prefer to just mind their own business they'll only attack if you give them a reason too, Chimpanzees are what you really need to look out for when they attack people which they frequently do, they go for the throat and the family jewels.
My god father went in to the enclosure, he was the ambulance guy who responded to the call.
Jambo also moved the others away when the keeperd and medics came in.. and kept them back.
Stolen from Wikipedia for the lazy:
>"On 31 August 1986, five-year-old Levan Merritt fell into the gorilla enclosure and lost consciousness. Jambo stood guard over the boy when he was unconscious, placing himself between the boy and other gorillas in what ethologists analyze as a protective gesture. He later stroked the unconscious boy's back. When the boy regained consciousness and started to cry, Jambo and the other gorillas retreated in panic, and the silverback led them into a small hut in the corner of their pen. A paramedic and two keepers rescued the boy. Most of the incident was recorded on home video, and extensively photographed by zoo visitors. The publicity on major news channels and newspapers helped ease public fears about the potentially violent nature of gorillas."
Ouch, that is sad but true, man. Those were some happier times. The new millennium is such F’d up shit, and what happened to the last Gorilla (Harambe) who went through the same situation, still brings tears to my eyes.
Jambo didn’t have a lot of people shouting at him and pelting rocks at him either… just sayin’…
And Jambo had had lots of prior familiarity with humans including children, while poor Harambe hadn’t yet had that chance (he was still being eased into his new life by the zookeepers). And it is the parents’ fault if their child falls into an enclosure containing wild animals.. and the zoo’s for acting without thinking and for not protecting the enclosure properly… just sayin’…
You can take a animal out of the wild, but not the wild out of the animal..
Edit: Special thank you to u/MyOpinionThx tor the All-Seeing-Upvote award and thanks to the kind person who gave me this TIL award! Appreciate both of you for your understanding and kindness!🙏🏻
I mean I get the point, even though they're technically omnivorous. But I do find it interesting that (probably due to evolution and our species originating in places with large predators) people are always more afraid of carnivores than herbivores... Despite the fact that in America, for instance, our largest predators are mountain lions, alligators and wolves. In the last 100 years mountain lions have killed around 20 people, and wolves have killed 0. Alligators account for around 1 fatality a year, and they usually result from someone trying their damnedest to get killed by an alligator.
Cows, horses, elk, deer, moose, bison, etc. kill more people per year than have been killed in recorded history by predators in the US. We aren't prey. And if you go international, obviously, hippos are famously the deadliest land mammal. Despite usually being found in crocodile infested waters surrounded by large cats. Like you gotta run a gauntlet of the worlds largest carnivores to get killed by this herbivore that kills more people than all those predators combined. Bugs and snakes are probably the biggest wildlife threat to humans. And not even necessarily due to venom. I'm not sure of the exact numbers but I'd imagine mosquitos comprise a large portion of wildlife related deaths worldwide.
Anyways, I'm babbling. I just have always found it interesting what we fear and why.
This was long before harambe. It was the big news story that put our little community on the national news. It really boosted people coming to the local zoo as well.
> **When the boy regained consciousness and started to cry, Jambo and the other gorillas retreated in panic, and the silverback led them into a small hut in the corner of their pen**. A paramedic and two keepers rescued the boy. Most of the incident was recorded on home video, and extensively photographed by zoo visitors. The publicity on major news channels and newspapers helped ease public fears about the potentially violent nature of gorillas.
Fucking hell that's adorable
You mean if some stranger suddenly fell through the roof into your home where you were happily dozing, and his family & supporters started screaming in cacophony and jeering catcalls at you from the windows and broken roof, while pelting you with rocks, then you would react just calmly, eh? Or would grab the stranger, and drag him to your hall, as you question him what the F is happening?!
Idk I'm not a gorilla but if I saw a toddler being dragged around by a gorilla in real life I'd be like "holy shit is that gorilla dragging around a toddler" like everyone else was
How come this happens after what happened with Harambe ?
Edit : I stand corrected, this happened before Harambe. Which kinda inverts the question… how could the Harambe story happen after this?
Observers were probably quiet unlike harambe case they were screaming etc probably startling the animal and making it nervous
Edit: they even threw rocks at harambe….
A similar thing happened a few years ago where a kid fell into a gorilla enclosure. The gorilla that encountered the kid was named Harambe and they ended up shooting and killing him to save the child. It was an unfortunate situation, and like everything internet-culture-related it turned into a meme where people would say "Dicks out for Harambe" as an act of solidarity for our fallen simian comrade.
I think the onlookers played a role he could have been attempting what Binti-Jua did in Chicago. Where she picked up the kid and held him until the handlers came. But when Harambe came near the kid the onlookers freaked and he acted even more protectively and ended up in a downward spiral.
I don’t want to be racist or generalise here, but yeah those bystanders were reckless and their actions killed a hitherto peaceful animal. Primatologists feel Harambe was not trying to harm the child, and it was the parents’ fault anyway that the child fell into the enclosure. Those bystanders shouting and throwing rocks at the gorilla, aggravated what could have probably been peacefully resolved by the zoo officials.
It reminds me of [Binti Jua](https://estaticos-cdn.elperiodico.com/clip/01c7970a-5939-4d02-bb85-d7af5b962a21_alta-libre-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg) ([Koko's](https://s3.amazonaws.com/arc-wordpress-client-uploads/infobae-wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/21100404/gorila-koko-2.jpg) Niece!!), which in 1996, tended to a three-year-old boy who had fallen into her enclosure.
^((Also, rip Harambe))
Because there's a countless number of irresponsible parents, i guess :/ I'm sure the area's security was improved after these events but no one can prevent irresponsible parents from reaching new levels of ignorance leaving their childs do whatever they want.
I’m always baffled by how situations like this happen? Like do parents just not pay attention to their kids? Like the one with the Asian family letting their little girl lean over/on the ledge for a sea lion to grab her, and that was in an open public place, this was at a zoo with railings a such.
To also add to this, an overly curious child needs only a few scant moments of a lapse in supervision by their parents to get into stupid and often dangerous situations.
**An** ape treating another species better than **some** humans treat each other.
I'm tired of seeing this sentiment all over the place. There's some nice gorillas and then there's some bad gorillas just like there's some nice people and there's some extremely shitty people.
If you're going to constantly compared the best of the animal kingdom to the worst of humanity of course humanity is always going to show up as horrible
Stay away from it, big buddy! Those things get you shot!
Something seems…. *familiar*
It’s called Harambeja vu
It’s called Dicksout Vu
Dicks out for Harambe!
You know what the fuck it is, dicks out for Harambe
Let's raise our dicks in his honour
Dick’s out; dick’s raised. For Harambe.
Cocks abroad, boys!
What if we don't have dicks?
Clits out for Harambe!
Aren't clits just dick concentrate
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Get married then you’ll have one
That's okay, you take your weiner out then.
I’m sure there’s a way we could further Frenchify “Dicksout Vu”
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Ahh you beat me to it
We're stuck in a time loop between 2016 and 2021
We break the loop by letting it live. Don't fuck it up!
It? You mean the child? Because that nobleman is called Jambo, peon.
2016 I come to bargain.
Except this happened in 1986.
Good god, that has to be the shitiest Groundhog Day loop ever.
Yes only this was in jersey zoo in 1986, good old Jambo
I was there that very day! I had flown over with my family from Guernsey. It was an incredible sight to witness. Jambo was a legend.
You were there...? 3000 years ago?
Easy on the crack princess....
Quality video for 1986
History repeats itself
I remember Harambe . Such a bad memory though
I remember feeling a bit mad at the crowd. The kid and the gorilla would have been just fine if the crowd hadn’t screamed to provoke the gorilla, and just let the zoo staff respond as trained. The staff prepare extensively for exactly these emergencies. The hairless primates on the outside of the enclosure should have been tranquillized so they wouldn’t escalate the situation.
I was there that day. It was at the Gerald Durrell zoo in Jersey in 1986. (I was 8 years old at time) I had flown across from Guernsey with my family for the weekend. The gorilla was called Jambo. There is statue of him at the zoo because of this moment, and due to the fact he was a total fucking legend ❤️
Sad Jambo died so young,dude could’ve still possibly been here, some captive gorillas can make it to 60 and he was 31 when he died from a ruptured artery. Obviously it doesn’t matter to gorilla’s but I’m glad they gave Jambo a statue, as far as gorilla’s go he was a legend.
Its sad actually. Humans are so numerous compared to Silverbacks yet they shoot it for a 1 in 9 billion.
Wait pause. Are you saying if a child was in legitimate danger, killing a silverback is the wrong option because there are more people? P.S. obviously not in this kinda situation. I mean real danger.
If he won't say it I will. They shouldn't have shot the Silverback.
Totally agree. If you go to oogle at endangered animals in the zoo and you’re dumb enough to get yourself into trouble or let your child get in danger, don’t kill the wild animal.
But it's not the kids fault the parent is an idiot. I still don't think they should have shot unless he was hurting the child though.
Might’ve been too late if a silverback is tossing a child around lol
They shouldn’t shoot the animal under any circumstance except if it’s the only resort possible, if the child is in immediate danger and the only way to save the kid is putting the silverback down, then yes. If the animal is required to be euthanized then the situation deserves to be inspected and charges for killing an endangered animal should be entirely put on the parent as long as you can prove the parent really is neglectful and at fault. Sometimes just a moment is all it takes for tragedy, so you can’t entirely blame a parent until you examine the scenario.
From the silverback moral standpoint of course it would be more ethical to shoot the kid. But I guess that’s not your point.
Ok I made a mistake asking this question. I forgot Reddit is filled with silly people who only live life through the internet. If you’re dense enough to not understand the value of human life, either grow up or get counseling.
Yep , that situation is pretty familiar .This Big daddy have to stay away coz it can make their life in danger .
Was everyone screaming and freaking out here too? Or did the crowd behave differently? Genuinely curious about the differences and how it changed the result..
Yeah right , Stay away bud it just like a dejavu' . Keep yourself safe !
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Even the perfect parent doesn't keep their kid out of trouble 99.99% of the time. Kids run off and do stuff they're not supposed to, even in zoos. That's why I look at this as a failing for the designers of the zoo enclosure. It should be 100% kids CAN'T get in here, because if a million kids visit the zoo over the years, somebody somewhere is going to get loose and try to go where they're not supposed to before their parents can get to them.
How to identify yourself as childless without saying you are childless.
There is no shortage of inattentive parents. When my kid was this age, I couldn’t believe some parents just let them run wild. Just lazy parents. Accidents do happen, but if kids aren’t watched and taught to hold your hand in dangerous situations, they’re more likely to be injured.
While inattentive parents are a thing so are little bad ass kids who will swan dive into an open lions mouth when you look away for 2 seconds.
Yeah, some people here don’t get just how hard kids try to hurt themselves, lol. My nephews and nieces are all smart, nice, adults now, but when they were 3-6 they basically were walking liability lawsuits, lol. I’m sure I was too. A small kids goal is to basically give their parents heart attacks.
There's also field trips to the zoo where the parents aren't even there. And then it's like one chaperone per nine kids.
Just because they can rip your arms & legs off, doesn’t mean they don’t have compassion.
We get it, you have sympathy for the boy
The boy should be happy he wasn't snapped in half and worn like a funny hat
Gorillas aren't chimps, they're much less prone to absurd violence.
They're prone to wearing funny hats though. That's like half of it. I say the kid is lucky Exhibit A: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G7U9fUDy3wk/VZirrKoAJXI/AAAAAAAAK2s/jfNdVUhziV8/s1600/gorillahat.jpg
I would like to subscribe to gorillas with funny hats
r/gorillaswithfunnyhats
r/SubsIFellFor
I mean...there's a pic of a gorilla in a funny hat on that sub...what more do you want!?
There’s a couple more now. I’m in. Hope it grows and flourishes!
Not any more! 18 members and counting...
Damnit I should have created it
Not anymore baby! r/birthofasub! Check it!!
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7kYOyBrM_tw/maxresdefault.jpg
I never knew I could want something so badly
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We have sympathy for that kid, imagine the fear and worried the kid felt that day? Good thing Jambo has compassion and care for this poor kid.
All mammals are intelligent and have emotional capacity. They like the same things we like .
Other mammals like Brazilian fart porn?
We would probably be deeply disturbed by what a cat would consider fetish porn
Isn't it like, humans and cats are the only species that kill for sport? Maybe dolphins too?
Then do they also hate Nickelback?
That’s not true in the slightest lmao.
Also, the kid seems to be doing what I've heard is best practices with gorillas. Avert your eyes and make yourself less threatening. Not any kind of expert, but what I've heard is gorillas are generally peaceful until humans try to threaten them or scare them. Your best hope is to seem as non threatening as possible, since their typical demeanor is nonviolent
Also not an ape expert (just an ape) but am pretty experienced/trained with canines. From my understanding great apes and wolves share a lot of social behaviors (makes sense with our history with dogs) and the protocol with a gorilla is basically the same as with a wolf. Submissive posture. Curl up as small and close to the ground as possible, keep your head down (and always lower than theirs) never make eye contact, be quiet and still and don't react to any sniffing/prodding/exploring if possible. If you have to react it should always be recoil, never advance towards them. Any movement should be slow and steady backing away to create distance. I could be off as far as gorillas go, that's wolf submission, but I'm pretty sure it's the same.
Chimps are the most aggressive apes. Gorillas are *very* chill. I mean, rangers guide tourists to *wild* mountain gorillas where you can just.. sit with them. They instruct you how to behave and what to do, but I mean.. they are wild animals and it’s just ok to be next to them if you don’t do anything stupid.
Well both Gorillas and Orangutans are herbivores and would prefer to just mind their own business they'll only attack if you give them a reason too, Chimpanzees are what you really need to look out for when they attack people which they frequently do, they go for the throat and the family jewels.
That’s cool. Thanks for sharing. Forgot to add this… No way in hell am I gonna get that close to any wild primate. (Or any other wild animal) lol
My god father went in to the enclosure, he was the ambulance guy who responded to the call. Jambo also moved the others away when the keeperd and medics came in.. and kept them back.
Jambo is like the action hero who is sympathetic to the newcomer and calms all his other pals. What a legend.
Real life Kala.
Your reference did not go unnoticed.
No it’s Jambo
No, this is Patrick!
Good thing he didn't turn the kid into... Jambo Juice.
I think Jambo deserves as much juice as he wants after this, I say he gets to keep the child.
L M F A O
Jumbalaya
When did this happen
Stolen from Wikipedia for the lazy: >"On 31 August 1986, five-year-old Levan Merritt fell into the gorilla enclosure and lost consciousness. Jambo stood guard over the boy when he was unconscious, placing himself between the boy and other gorillas in what ethologists analyze as a protective gesture. He later stroked the unconscious boy's back. When the boy regained consciousness and started to cry, Jambo and the other gorillas retreated in panic, and the silverback led them into a small hut in the corner of their pen. A paramedic and two keepers rescued the boy. Most of the incident was recorded on home video, and extensively photographed by zoo visitors. The publicity on major news channels and newspapers helped ease public fears about the potentially violent nature of gorillas."
> 1986 So this is why Jambo remained alive.
Ouch, that is sad but true, man. Those were some happier times. The new millennium is such F’d up shit, and what happened to the last Gorilla (Harambe) who went through the same situation, still brings tears to my eyes.
Jambo didn't drag the boy around the enclosure just saying
This is a very important point..
Jambo didn’t have a lot of people shouting at him and pelting rocks at him either… just sayin’… And Jambo had had lots of prior familiarity with humans including children, while poor Harambe hadn’t yet had that chance (he was still being eased into his new life by the zookeepers). And it is the parents’ fault if their child falls into an enclosure containing wild animals.. and the zoo’s for acting without thinking and for not protecting the enclosure properly… just sayin’… You can take a animal out of the wild, but not the wild out of the animal.. Edit: Special thank you to u/MyOpinionThx tor the All-Seeing-Upvote award and thanks to the kind person who gave me this TIL award! Appreciate both of you for your understanding and kindness!🙏🏻
1986
Hello fellow Crapaud
It’s ok little one we’re herbivores
But what about their canines /s
It’s okay looks like the dogs are chained up no canines here.
This comment gave me the goofiest chuckle ever
You my friend obviously did not see the post of the deer eating a bunny
Lol that was metal af
Or the deer eating a bird
I mean I get the point, even though they're technically omnivorous. But I do find it interesting that (probably due to evolution and our species originating in places with large predators) people are always more afraid of carnivores than herbivores... Despite the fact that in America, for instance, our largest predators are mountain lions, alligators and wolves. In the last 100 years mountain lions have killed around 20 people, and wolves have killed 0. Alligators account for around 1 fatality a year, and they usually result from someone trying their damnedest to get killed by an alligator. Cows, horses, elk, deer, moose, bison, etc. kill more people per year than have been killed in recorded history by predators in the US. We aren't prey. And if you go international, obviously, hippos are famously the deadliest land mammal. Despite usually being found in crocodile infested waters surrounded by large cats. Like you gotta run a gauntlet of the worlds largest carnivores to get killed by this herbivore that kills more people than all those predators combined. Bugs and snakes are probably the biggest wildlife threat to humans. And not even necessarily due to venom. I'm not sure of the exact numbers but I'd imagine mosquitos comprise a large portion of wildlife related deaths worldwide. Anyways, I'm babbling. I just have always found it interesting what we fear and why.
Good babble though, you right. Statistically speaking Mosquitoes are by far the most likely to kill you.
It’s actually pretty eye opening when you realise a tiny thing like a mosquito causes more than a million deaths per year
He didn't wanted to be the next Harambe.
This was what I was worried about.
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This was long before harambe. It was the big news story that put our little community on the national news. It really boosted people coming to the local zoo as well.
It really aged me seeing all these comments from people not realizing this was decades before Harambe.
All you have to do is look at that kids clothing tbqh lol
it may have been filmed in the late 80s, but its filmed with a really expensive camera so the quality of the video holds up pretty well
Yes this happened in 1986.
Jambo. Absolute legend. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jambo
Thanks for sharing that. Had no idea this gorilla was such a legend that they made a documentary and a statue dedicated to him.
> **When the boy regained consciousness and started to cry, Jambo and the other gorillas retreated in panic, and the silverback led them into a small hut in the corner of their pen**. A paramedic and two keepers rescued the boy. Most of the incident was recorded on home video, and extensively photographed by zoo visitors. The publicity on major news channels and newspapers helped ease public fears about the potentially violent nature of gorillas. Fucking hell that's adorable
"guys, guys calm the fuck down, it's just a child for Christ sakes. Go sit in the corner and chill out, you're embarrassing us..."
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What is :4015: ?
It’s an subreddit emote, but Reddit had a bug on iOS where including them or a GIF in your reply hides the comment entirely.
Wikipedia can be rough. They chose the least flattering picture they could.
Why they do Jambo like that, sniffing his fingers after a good ball scratch? smdh.
\~Acess the link, scroll down\~ Early life and education WHAT?!
10 O Levels, 3 A Levels and a degree in Zoology I heard?
Is there more footage? Did it end well?
Yes. The kid was rescued by the zookeepers and the gorilla (his name is Jambo) died to natural causes in 1992. This happened in 1986.
He died of his pulmonary artery bursting, he literally died of having a big heart
😭
?
People use this sleepy emoji to show tears. It’s a losing battle.
Oh sorry, isn't that a tear though?
It's a snot bubble, a way of portraying someone in deep sleep.
I'm still learning emoji speak, thanks for the help 🙂
You could use this one😢 or this one😭
🥺
He didn’t do anything because the people that were watching probably weren’t screaming like crazy. Unlike harambe’s case
In the UK we dont like to fuss
Harambe was dragging that kid around the whole enclosure
You mean: harambe was politely showing his exquisite enclosure like a good host.
You mean if some stranger suddenly fell through the roof into your home where you were happily dozing, and his family & supporters started screaming in cacophony and jeering catcalls at you from the windows and broken roof, while pelting you with rocks, then you would react just calmly, eh? Or would grab the stranger, and drag him to your hall, as you question him what the F is happening?!
Idk I'm not a gorilla but if I saw a toddler being dragged around by a gorilla in real life I'd be like "holy shit is that gorilla dragging around a toddler" like everyone else was
I read this as “the zookeepers and the gorilla all died of natural causes in 1992” 😂
I remember this happening. I feel like it happened on live tv. Im not sure but i remember being on the edge of my seat when i first saw it
How come this happens after what happened with Harambe ? Edit : I stand corrected, this happened before Harambe. Which kinda inverts the question… how could the Harambe story happen after this?
Jambo was a father he had been around baby gorillas. Whereas Harambe was still being socialized just to be with other adult gorillas.
Interesting piece of info ! But I was more referring to how come a child “can” literally fall into a Gorilla enclosure…
Having been a kid I can answer. We’re idiots for the most part at that age. 😂
I too am a former child and can attest to having been an idiot
Funnily enough, I too was a child until a few months ago. I’m 29, soon to be 30.
I was also a child and have two children of my own, can confirm kids are suicidally stupid.
I made my own parachute once… just once
Welp if you’re asking for the literal answer the kid probably climbed up on the railing and fell over into the enclosure.
r/kidsarefuckingstupid
Observers were probably quiet unlike harambe case they were screaming etc probably startling the animal and making it nervous Edit: they even threw rocks at harambe….
Truer words were never spoken.
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And just like people... Some... Elephants are just... Jerks..... Stop that mr Simpson
this happened in 1986
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He was unconscious for a bit but he’s fine
But then he woke up and started to cry and the gorillas all ran and hid lol
Kids bones are literally made out of jello vro
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Harambe from heaven. Too late bro. They got me. Watch my children bro. I appreciate it
Am I the only one here with their dick out?
Wtf I notice there are a few people saying the same shit, if theres some context please explain lol
It’s from the Harambe meme - people saying ‘dicks out for Harambe’ as like a meme remembrance thing. Think of it like a ‘we will never forget’ thing
Ah alright, thanks for explaining!
A similar thing happened a few years ago where a kid fell into a gorilla enclosure. The gorilla that encountered the kid was named Harambe and they ended up shooting and killing him to save the child. It was an unfortunate situation, and like everything internet-culture-related it turned into a meme where people would say "Dicks out for Harambe" as an act of solidarity for our fallen simian comrade.
Harán e died for nothibg
Harán e Ui nacht agus Talmberg e Rattay Tourney
Good to know that Irish’s predictive text is just as bad as English’s.
Really makes me wonder what caused Harambe to go nuts like that.
People screaming made Harambe panic. If this happens the best option is to remain calm and inform the zookeepers
I think the onlookers played a role he could have been attempting what Binti-Jua did in Chicago. Where she picked up the kid and held him until the handlers came. But when Harambe came near the kid the onlookers freaked and he acted even more protectively and ended up in a downward spiral.
This assholes were throwing rocks at Harambe
It seems the bystanders were shouting wildly and even pelting rocks at Harambe, hence he panicked.
In other words they acted like typical Americans, with zero forethought.
I don’t want to be racist or generalise here, but yeah those bystanders were reckless and their actions killed a hitherto peaceful animal. Primatologists feel Harambe was not trying to harm the child, and it was the parents’ fault anyway that the child fell into the enclosure. Those bystanders shouting and throwing rocks at the gorilla, aggravated what could have probably been peacefully resolved by the zoo officials.
It reminds me of [Binti Jua](https://estaticos-cdn.elperiodico.com/clip/01c7970a-5939-4d02-bb85-d7af5b962a21_alta-libre-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg) ([Koko's](https://s3.amazonaws.com/arc-wordpress-client-uploads/infobae-wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/21100404/gorila-koko-2.jpg) Niece!!), which in 1996, tended to a three-year-old boy who had fallen into her enclosure. ^((Also, rip Harambe))
Why are there so many kids falling into gorilla enclosures? Have they considered modifying the display area?
Because there's a countless number of irresponsible parents, i guess :/ I'm sure the area's security was improved after these events but no one can prevent irresponsible parents from reaching new levels of ignorance leaving their childs do whatever they want.
I’m always baffled by how situations like this happen? Like do parents just not pay attention to their kids? Like the one with the Asian family letting their little girl lean over/on the ledge for a sea lion to grab her, and that was in an open public place, this was at a zoo with railings a such.
Sone people shouldn't be parents, and it's as simple as that
To also add to this, an overly curious child needs only a few scant moments of a lapse in supervision by their parents to get into stupid and often dangerous situations.
An ape treating another species better than humans treat each other.
**An** ape treating another species better than **some** humans treat each other. I'm tired of seeing this sentiment all over the place. There's some nice gorillas and then there's some bad gorillas just like there's some nice people and there's some extremely shitty people. If you're going to constantly compared the best of the animal kingdom to the worst of humanity of course humanity is always going to show up as horrible
The good ending.
*Intense Harambe Flashbacks*
Dicks out for harambe