{"id":4175,"date":"2016-06-02T20:32:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T20:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=4175"},"modified":"2016-06-02T20:33:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T20:33:10","slug":"rip-harambe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=4175","title":{"rendered":"RIP Harambe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit late to comment on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-36407643\">this<\/a>, but why not?<\/p>\n<p>So we have a gorilla that has been shot dead to prevent him\u00a0<em>possibly<\/em> injuring a four-year old that had somehow managed to get into the enclosure. Which is obviously a shame.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, and despite the fact that I&#8217;m fully behind <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_ape_personhood\">limited rights for great apes<\/a>, I believe that shooting Harambe was probably the right thing to do. Harambe\u00a0<em>could<\/em> have ripped that four-year old apart, and from the videos I have seen, he didn&#8217;t look exactly calm. And when you come down to it, the decision has to be down to the zoo keepers.<\/p>\n<p>Of course you could just let the four-year old get ripped to pieces, but you would have to be a gorilla to think that was a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>But how did the four-year old get into the enclosure in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s two parts to that. Why did the zoo not make their enclosures toddler-proof?<\/p>\n<p>And why did this toddler&#8217;s mother let him get away? Admittedly controlling a toddler makes herding cats look easy, but keeping a toddler on a leash around dangerous animals would seem to be a sensible idea.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4176\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Harambe.jpg?resize=615%2C492&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Harambe\" width=\"615\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Harambe.jpg?w=615&amp;ssl=1 615w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Harambe.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit late to comment on this, but why not? So we have a gorilla that has been shot dead to prevent him\u00a0possibly injuring a four-year old that had somehow managed to get into the enclosure. Which is obviously a shame. Having said that, and despite the fact that I&#8217;m fully behind limited rights for <a href='https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=4175' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[1422],"class_list":["post-4175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-harambe","category-7-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-15l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4178,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions\/4178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}