The Cincinnati Zoo reopened its Gorilla World exhibit today, closing a chapter on the controversy that erupted after a toddler fell into the gorilla enclosure, forcing the zoo to shoot and kill the endangered silverback to save the boy. The Gorilla World exhibit has been fitted with a new, modified barrier, zoo officials said. Zoo director Thane Maynard said at…
The closed main entrance to the Cincinnati Zoo’s Gorilla World exhibit, June 2, 2016, in Cincinnati. Getty Images No charges will be filed against the parents of a young boy who crawled over a barrier at the Cincinnati Zoo and fell into an enclosure with a 450-pound gorilla, Hamilton County, Ohio, prosecuting attorney Joseph Deters said at a press conference…
A witness present at the Cincinnati Zoo says the 450-pound gorilla that was shot and killed after a 4-year-old boy fell into his enclosure was not “hurting” the boy, but instead seemed to be “protecting him.” “The little boy, once he fell, I don’t think the gorilla even knew that he was in there until he heard him splashing in…
