Why Did The Zoo Keeper Shot The Gorilla

In this report i will be investigating the gorilla attack of a four year old boy at the cincinnati zoo on saturday the 28th of may 2016. Questions i will be answering are 1. Why did the zoo keeper shot the gorilla and not just tracalize it. 2. Was the child really in danger? And 3.What could the zoo have done to prevent this tragedy?

To answer the first question of why did the zoo keeper shot the gorilla and not tranquilize it is because it would have taken about 10 minutes for the tranquilize medicine to take affect which was not an option due to the zoo officials not knowing what could have happen with the boy and the gorilla.evidence of this can be showing in what the zoo officials said during a interview “Tranquillising the gorilla with a dart just simply wouldn’t have worked in this situation.‘It would have taken up to 10 minutes to take affect and the animal may have become violent which would have had catastrophic consequences”.
Zoo officials are not sure if the boy was really endanger or not . In the video (http://hollywoodlife.com/2016/05/29/gorilla-killed-cincinnati-zoo-child-falls-reaction-harambe-shot/) is showed at first that the gorilla was holding hands with the child but the situation tuns for the worse when the gorilla starts to draging the boy around in the water then sistuations change back to the to the gorilla helping the boy to stand up. This suggests that the gorilla was being protective of the child due to their animal nature which means the gorillas behaviour went straight to parental