Jane Goodall: Slain Zoo Gorilla Was ‘Putting an Arm Round the Child’

[Judi Lynn]

Jane Goodall: Slain Zoo Gorilla Was ‘Putting an Arm Round the Child’

Melissa Chan
May 31, 2016

Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most renowned primatologists, wrote an email on Tuesday to the director of the Cincinnati Zoo, saying she thought the slain gorilla may have been protecting the boy who fell into the animal’s exhibit.

The scientist and animal rights activist extended her sympathies to the zoo’s director, Thane Maynard, amid national backlash over the shooting death of a 17-year-old western lowland gorilla named Harambe.

“I tried to see exactly what was happening—it looked as though the gorilla was putting an arm round the child—like the female who rescued and returned the child from the Chicago exhibit,” she wrote, according to the correspondence the Jane Goodall Institute made public. Goodall may have been referring to the 1996 incident at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois in which a female gorilla carried a boy to safety after he fell into her pit.

“Anyway, whatever, it is a devastating loss to the zoo, and to the gorillas,” Goodall wrote.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/jane-goodall-slain-zoo-gorilla-223216216.html?nhp=1

[FarPoint]

1. I trust Jane Goodall above all others regarding this gorilla abuse.

Jane is the utmost expert.

[hlthe2b]

2. Me too, even though I don't fault the zoo for acting

For those who want to bemoan all this anguish about a dead gorilla and throw up straw dog arguments that we wanted the child to be at risk, I will say that I do NOT blame the zoo for acting... I can and DO express and truly feel devastation for all the human tragedies at the very same time I can feel horrendous about the loss of this nearly irreplaceable animal and others like him. It really is NOT one or the other.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. I blame them. How was their only control option lethal?

[Judi Lynn]

9. She's been with them in their own habitat for decades. She most surely knows whereof she speaks. n/t

[Schema Thing]

3. Bad headline. She didn't say that at all, she prefaced it with "it looked as though..."

[Judi Lynn]

8. Please forgive me!

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[Schema Thing]

10. Snark away, but she said something very different than what you say she said.

IOW, you're lying. And disrespecting Jane Goodall.

[magical thyme]

12. the thread title is a cut & paste of the article title

IOW, the OP didn't lie or disrespect anyone; you did by attributing the quote to the OPer.

[felix_numinous]

5. Why not a dart gun?

No one can tell me we don't have the technology to stun an animal. There is too much lethal force with animals and with humans, it is unnecessary to kill.

[SunSeeker]

11. As the zoo said, it would have agitated the gorilla, and taken too long to knock him out.

It is not like in the movies. A tranquilizer dart takes some minutes to kick in, during which time the gorilla is very upset he has been struck by a dart, thrashes about and may hurt or kill the child.

[No Vested Interest]

6. I'm a little sick of those, including "experts" who have worked with gorillas,

delivering their opinion on the brief video they saw, which did not include the period following the time in the moat.

Have the videos shown amounted to more than one minute of the total 10-minute experience?

Are these experts aware or taking into account that Harambe took the child up a ladder to a grassy and concrete area out of sight of visitors' cameras and became more aggressive, dragging and tossing the child during the minutes before the trained team ended the gorilla's life?

I don't know exactly how many minutes Harambe was in the moat with the child and how many minutes after he ascended the ladder into the habitat area, but the visitors had been cleared from the area into a building before the shot was fired, and that could not have been done in an instant.

Harambe's death is a tragedy. His sperm was collected for future breeding, as were other body specimens for research.

[Archae]

7. Jane Goodall no longer is credible.

Her anti-GMO and pro-Jeffrey Smith stance has destroyed her credibility.

http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2014/09/1157-jeffery-smith.html

[fasttense]

13. Yeah because being anti-GMO means you don't know nothing about primates. N/T

[Archae]

14. Linus Pauling was an expert chemist. But he lost his credibilty.

When he decided massive doses of vitamin C could cure just about anything.

Likewise, Jane Goodall lost her credibility when she decided to be a fan of Jeffrey Smith.

[Javaman]

15. non-sequiturs are your forte'. nt