Jane Goodall has written to Thane Maynard, the director of the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens, expressing her dismay and sorrow over the shooting in the zoo.
She writes with empathy, saying that she felt “sorry” for him, because he had to try and “defend something” he may “disapprove of.”
An eminent primatologist, Goodall is one of the world’s ‘foremost experts on chimpanzees’. She said it seemed as though the gorilla was putting an arm around the child, like the female who “rescued and returned the child” from an exhibit in Chicago.
On Saturday, a 17-year-old gorilla was shot dead after it grabbed and dragged a four year old boy who had fallen into the the gorilla exhibit moat, at the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio.
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