On 31 August 1986, five-year-old Levan Merritt fell into the gorilla enclosure and lost consciousness. Jambo stood guard over the boy when he was unconscious, placing himself between the boy and other gorillas in what ethologists analyze as a protective gesture. He later stroked the unconscious boy’s back.
If the crowd would have just shut up it would probably have been fine. At first Hatambe was acting like the gorillia in this video.
Ok, convince an entire crowd that they have nothing to fear and everything is ok and they can calm down. And do it quickly because the boy is being dragged around like a rag doll, which seems to be having the opposite effect.
He wasn’t at first though. The full video Harambe was acting concerned, checking if the boy was OK, etc. But you have everyone screaming and shouting, creating a much worse situation .
You can imagine the reverse a gorilla baby falls to you. The gorillas are calm so you help them, vs every gorilla launching a loud noisy assault like they are goinf to attack…You’d be like fuck nah time to run.
I don’t know what you trying to say should have been done. What else could have been done?
Nothing people are hysterical herd minds. It played out how it only could I think.
Had everyone just gone hush quiet the park staff might have had a chance to move harambe away.