Officials at the Cincinnati Zoo did the only thing they could think of to make sure that a toddler who had fallen into the gorilla pen would survive. The lad, 4, had somehow crawled through a fence which extended some ten feet above the pen of a 400-pound gorilla named Harambe. The big animal seized the boy like a kind of curiosity, holding him by the leg and standing him up but always hanging on. The child was terrified. The zoo explained that a tranquilizer was not a safe option. It does not work quickly and always causes a gorilla to have an angry reaction when struck by the dart. So they reluctantly shot the big animal.
