4 year old child falls into gorilla habitat

[plastroncafe]

People who work with large mammals, and large primates, are all saying what looks like "protection" is really an intimidation behavior.

Silverback Gorilla males have evolved to do pretty much four things:

eat
sleep
mate
and defend their territory.

The female gorilla people keep referencing from years ago had been trained to bring her own baby to the keepers for regular check ups. That's why she reacted to the human child the way she did.

Seriously, people need to stop anthropomorphizing wild animals.
And yes, I realize I'm saying that on a ninja turtle forum.

[Commenter 42]

Human life is not worth more because we say so.

It's cool that you work at a Zoo Plastron, but on some level, you have to admit to yourself, it's a prison, where people routinely pay to gather around captive animals and act like **** heads, throw garbage, jeer, and be the worst of themselves.

It's not that I don't care because I don't know them. I have empathy, buckets of it, for those who deserve it. The kid put the Gorilla in danger, not the other way around. The kid brought about the death of the Gorilla. The kid was the parents responsibility, like it or not.

The Gorilla did nothing wrong, the kid did. Like I said, it really is a numbers game, and yes, I'd say the same, even if it were my kid.

Seaworld is a f*cking abomination that should be destroyed. Don't tempt me with that garbage.

If I were the judge, I'd sentence the family to 10 years in a zoo; on display, for the masses.

[The Deadman]

Originally Posted by Commenter 42

Seaworld is a f*cking abomination that should be destroyed. Don't tempt me with that garbage.

Sounds like you watched the propaganda that was passed off as that Blackfish or whatever it was called documentary.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Well THIS is a very interesting thread...

[Commenter 42]

Originally Posted by The Deadman

Sounds like you watched the propaganda that was passed off as that Blackfish or whatever it was called documentary.

Take the corporations side. Good boy. Seaworld is a wonderful jail.

[Andrew NDB]

There has been a breaking (and very dark) new turn in this:

http://www.chaser.com.au/2016/zoo-cl...islamic-state/

[The Deadman]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

There has been a breaking (and very dark) new turn in this:

http://www.chaser.com.au/2016/zoo-cl...islamic-state/

Well now it all makes sense. I'm waiting for Trump to make a statement on this where he hearby declares a mass deportation of all gorillas back to the Middle East.

[plastroncafe]

Originally Posted by Commenter 42

It's cool that you work at a Zoo Plastron, but on some level, you have to admit to yourself, it's a prison, where people routinely pay to gather around captive animals and act like **** heads, throw garbage, jeer, and be the worst of themselves.

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Seaworld is a f*cking abomination that should be destroyed. Don't tempt me with that garbage.

Considering all of the animals in the zoo I worked at got there either via Wildlife rehabilitator or were confiscated by law enforcement....no, I don't have to admit that. On any level.

As for SeaWorld, they're not a perfect organization by any stretch of the imagination, and I'd rather they stop perpetuating the notion that the animals they have in their collection aren't wild creatures, they do a whole lot of very necessary work as well.

People are idiots when it comes to wild animals regardless of whether they're in one of your so-called prisons.
This Guy was outside and he still managed to be killed by stupid people who thought they knew better than wildlife managers.

It's nice that you've got this whole Edgelord Contrarian thing going on, but seriously: Sit down before you hurt yourself.

[Commenter 42]

Originally Posted by plastroncafe

Considering all of the animals in the zoo I worked at got there either via Wildlife rehabilitator or were confiscated by law enforcement....no, I don't have to admit that. On any level.

As for SeaWorld, they're not a perfect organization by any stretch of the imagination, and I'd rather they stop perpetuating the notion that the animals they have in their collection are wild creatures, they do a whole lot of very necessary work as well.

People are idiots when it comes to wild animals regardless of whether they're in one of your so-called prisons.
This Guy was outside and he still managed to be killed by stupid people who thought they knew better than wildlife managers.

It's nice that you've got this whole Edgelord Contrarian thing going on, but seriously: Sit down before you hurt yourself.

You've chosen to engage, so be it.

You're about the most self-righteous, cantankerous pratt here, and you damn well know it. You go to bat for very insipid argument a self loathing human twit can divine, including where we/he/she/it should defecate, without a thought, but change the argument to one concerning non-human lives, and you brazenly condescend. Where's you're SJW angst for those who are the most defenseless?

Where's your outrage? Tied up with some millionaire who can't decide if he wants to be a father, or a mother, or a punchline? Wrapped up in fighting for needlessly complicated language to address another human.

I'm not an Edgelord swetie-pie, just a human who looks beyond his own species.

You can't argue the Gorilla deserved to die...but you might, based on his gender. That, wouldn't surprise me in the least. and had he been a Gay Gorilla, well then, it's a hate crime!

Get on the right side of history; animal lives matter.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

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[Bry]

Gee I wonder what's going on in this threa--

[plastroncafe]

Blast my inability to edit text correctly.
Alas. Alack.

[plastroncafe]

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Lotta monkey business happening in this thread...

[TheSkeletonMan939]

Originally Posted by Commenter 42

The Gorilla did nothing wrong, the kid did. Like I said, it really is a numbers game, and yes, I'd say the same, even if it were my kid.

You sound like a lunatic. I hope you're not a father, because you'd be a terrible one. And if you ever do become a father I hope you change your opinion about the worth of human life, especially that of your own blood.

The gorilla didn't deserve to die but neither did the kid. It was an awful mistake he made and it's a true shame the gorilla had to pay the price. But if one of them had to die that day, it had to be the gorilla.

Can you honestly tell me - and yourself - if you had the choice to pull the trigger, or watch a young boy be seriously injured or even killed, you would turn your back on the child?

[plastroncafe]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Lotta monkey business happening in this thread...

Nah just a dearth of reading comprehension.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by plastroncafe

Nah just a dearth of reading comprehension.

No, there are definitely some people going apesh!t on this thread.

It's a jungle in here...

[plastroncafe]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

No, there are definitely some people going apesh!t on this thread.

It's a jungle in here...

You more than deserve this for that.

[TheSkeletonMan939]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

It's a jungle in here...

Song quality = thread quality

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

I'm just on here to make monkey puns and watch people say cruel things to each other.

It's bananas, I tell ya.

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Unless I can come up with anymore ape-related puns, I think I'm out now.