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Animal lovers are outraged after zookeepers shot to death 17-year-old gorilla Harambe at the Cincinnati Zoo when a boy climbed into its enclosure.
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Harambe is imagined in this undated present photograph gave by Cincinnati Zoo. REUTERS/Cincinnati Zoo/Handout by means of Reuters
A mother and her tyke visit a bronze statue of a gorilla outside the Cincinnati Zoo's Gorilla World show, May 30, 2016. REUTERS/William Philpott
Flowers lay around a bronze statue of a gorilla and her child outside the Cincinnati Zoo's Gorilla World display, two days after a kid tumbled into its canal and authorities were compelled to kill Harambe, a 17-year-old Western marsh silverback gorilla, in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 30, 2016. REUTERS/William Philpott
Thane Maynard, Executive Director of the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens, addresses correspondents in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 30, 2016. The chief of the Cincinnati Zoo said that a three-foot (one-meter) boundary around the gorilla fenced in area was satisfactory, despite the fact that a 4-year-old kid could move over it and fall in, driving zookeepers to shoot the primate dead after it snatched him and dragged him around. REUTERS/William Philpott
People go to a vigil outside the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens, May 30, 2016. The passing of Harambe offended creature mates, around 20 of whom organized a vigil outside the zoo. More than 200,000 individuals marked online petitions on Change.org to challenge the shooting, some requesting "Equity for Harambe" and encouraging police to consider the youngster's folks responsible. REUTERS/William Philpott
People go to a vigil outside the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens, May 30, 2016. REUTERS/William Philpott
Thane Maynard, Executive Director of the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens, addresses correspondents, May 30, 2016. REUTERS/William Philpott
The access to the Cincinnati Zoo's Gorilla World display is shut, May 30, 2016. REUTERS/William Philpott
People go to a vigil outside the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens, May 30, 2016. REUTERS/William Philpott
Thane Maynard, Executive Director of the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens, addresses journalists, May 30, 2016. REUTERS/William Philpott
A individual places a photograph on a dedication amid a vigil outside the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens, May 30, 2016. REUTERS/William Philpott