UPDATE: Cincinnati Police Zero In On Parents in Zoo Incident

[moriah]

49. The fact that she acknowledged people were blaming her already in the original FB posting.

Look, I'm sad that any primate had to die that day, but regardless of if the zoo will be required (or choose) to update their barriers and methods for de-escalation when a person is far more negligent and actually holds the kid up over the railings, like happened in my hometown, those exhibits are terrible.

I think higher primates in zoos are treated cruelly enough by being taken out of their natural habitats and peer groups that those particular exhibits should not exist at all, or if they do only because of having no other home for a gorilla that was bred in captivity or taken from its mother and can never re-integrate, they should be protecting ALL the primates better.

Including our todflers, but also the primates from our kids and kids in adult bodies being unruly, teasing, taunting them...