What Makes Us Grieve for a Gorilla?
I confess, I am grieving for the gorilla.
To be precise: Harambe, the endangered western lowlands (perhaps) gallant gorilla into whose Cincinnati Zoo den a four-year old boy toppled on May 28.
We don't know if Harambe would prove gallant or not, because a bullet ended his life. The price of determining the ape's gallantry might have been too high — the mauling of a toddler.
Yet we really would like to know if the mighty animal with the noble eyes and stalwart countenance would have cared for the child. But how many of us would have waited to find out had it been our child in Harambe's clutches?
