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Celebrity and comedian Ricky Gervais has joined in the thong of criticism directed the Cincinatti zoo, which killed a silverback gorilla to save a boy who had fell into the animal’s enclosure.
Eula Ray, of Hamilton, whose son is a curator for the zoo, touches a sympathy card beside a gorilla statue outside the Gorilla World exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, Sunday, May 29, 2016, in Cincinnati. On Saturday, a special zoo response team shot and killed Harambe, a 17-year-old gorilla, that grabbed and dragged a 4-year-old boy who fell into the gorilla exhibit moat. AP Photo/John Minchillo
The zoo has defended its decision to kill the gorilla, and the zoo director said that he would make the same decision again given the chance.
The gorilla had been seen grabbing the child, and some zoo officials said that the gorilla could have easily crushed the boy to death if not for the zoo’s intervention.
