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The Cincinnati Zoo plans to reopen its Gorilla World exhibit with a reinforced, higher safety barrier following the death of a gorilla to protect a boy who had entered its enclosure.
The Cincinnati Zoo reopened its gorilla exhibit with a higher, reinforced barrier installed after a boy got into the exhibit and was dragged by a 400-pound gorilla, which was then shot and killed.
Yet one person with knowledge of the zoo business said the decision to kill a 17-year-old gorilla named Harambe after a three-year-old boy managed to get into the exhibit was unlikely to dent ...
With a crowd of media and zoo visitors in attendance and a new barrier in place, the Cincinnati Zoo's Gorilla World exhibit reopened Tuesday morning. "Today is a big day," Cincinnati Zoo director ...