I think that it’s disgusting that an endangered animal had to be killed as a result of poor parenting. My children are always within reach, most of the time holding my hands, and would never even attempt to do something like enter an enclosure. I am constantly educating my children about animals and safety around them. My daughter is not even 4 yet and I know that she would not think of doing such a thing.
Bring your kids up right and they will know how to behave properly in public and around animals. It was not the gorilla’s fault and this should never have happened.

This is very sad. I really think the zoo needs to look at their fencing

this is terribly sad news. I believe he was just simply protecting and looking after the little boy. I dont think he deserved to be killed seeing as though the boy was not harmed, i agree…if the boys mother had have been looking after him properly then poor Herambe would still be alive. such sad news 🙁
I am so glad the child is alive and relatively uninjured.

I presume the gorilla dragged the boy of the water. Without knowing the full details would the boy have drowned if the Gorilla had not pulled him away. The people should have been ordered to move right away. The gorilla would probably have voluntarily let the keeper take the little boy. It probably thought the boy was being endangered by them.

I presume if I was the parent, i would want the gorilla shot if iteant my child would be safe, as an animal lover I wonder where and what this mother was doing that her child was able to climb into an animal enclosure.

A lot of things went wrong in this situation. I don’t understand why the enclosure wasn’t more secure.

I read about this yesterday and I was so sorry for that gorilla! He was killed because the parents of that child didn’t give enough attention to him! Really not fair! 🙁

A beautiful animal killed because of a parent\’s lack of supervision! I\’m sorry, but I would have watched the little boy MORE, knowing he wanted to go into the enclosure….

I am absolutely disgusted! Yet another animal killed thanks to us humans. So so so very sad, my heart bleeds for the gorilla. How on earth did the kid manage to get in there? Lack of parental supervision I would say

Very sad and the gorilla suffered and lost his life due to a parent not supervising their child properly. The zoo did what they thought necessary without risking the gorilla harming the child once darted

I feel so sad that because of humans this beautiful creature lost it’s life.

I think it was the best decision.

It’s so very sad. I’m sure the zoo took the appropriate steps to make sure the right decision was made and they wouldn’t simply kill gorilla on a whim.