Police in the US state of Ohio are going to look into the shooting of a 17-year-old gorilla at Cincinnati Zoo. The killing happened after a four-year-old boy fell onto the ground of the gorilla on Saturday. Video showed the gorilla dragging the boy through shallow water in his cage for up to ten minutes. Some people who were at the zoo said they were worried about the little boy’s safety. Other people said the gorilla was trying to protect the child and that the animal was becoming upset by the noise from the people outside his cage. Zookeepers decided to shoot the gorilla because they were afraid that the animal would kill the child.
Animal rights groups are very angry that the gorilla was shot and killed. They say zookeepers should have used a medicine gun on the animal to put it to sleep. Zookeepers say it would have taken too long for the 200 kg gorilla to be quiet. They say this would have been too dangerous. There is now an online petition(请愿) that 300,000 people have asked to hold the boy's mother and the zoo accountable(负责任的) for the gorilla's death. Many people say the mother should have looked after her son better to stop him from falling into the gorilla's area. The mother said no parent in the world can watch their children every second.
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