Sperm was removed from Harambe the gorilla after he died - so that he could become a father
Scientists have revealed that they harvested sperm from Harambe the gorilla shortly after he died - meaning he could live on through a son or daughter.
The endangered animal was shot dead on Saturday after a four-year-old boy fell into the Gorilla World enclosure in Cincinnati Zoo, sparking a backlash from animal-lovers around the world.
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“There’s a future," Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden director Thane Maynard told Cincinatti.com .
"It’s not the end of his gene pool."
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/sperm-was-removed-from-harambe-the-gorilla-after-he-died-so-that-he-could-become-a-father-a3260541.htmlHarambe was murdered so some human (who was negligent enough for their child to fall into a gorilla pit) would not be at risk of having their genetic legacy potentially being harmed. Now, the same people who murdered Harambe want to r*pe gorillas in his "honor".
One of the most widespread memes was noted by The Washington Post and New York magazine who observed a proliferation of over-the-top and fake tributes to Harambe. "The idea is, the more intense and more sincere-seeming the expression of mourning is, the funnier the joke."[34][37] [...] Aja Romano of Vox wrote that "If you were a progressive, the Harambe meme gave you a chance to mock what you viewed as the hypocritical haranguing of the mainstream while avoiding real issues of social justice;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarambeInstead of simply being "funny", I think "Justice for Harambe" became a big meme because it represented how fed up people were with the absurdity and hypocrisy of Western Civilization. Unconsciously, I think many of those memes really were sincere. After all, why shouldn't Harambe have justice?
If the media and talking heads are going to go on and on about ethics, and justice, and how much they care about human and non-human victims of all sorts of tragedies,
why shouldn't we actually get real ethics and real justice at some point?
Nearly all of the talking points used by the social justice movements protesting against human-on-human initiated violence by police can be applied to what happened to Harambe. Why treat his death as just another statistic and move on? Why were they so quick to jump to lethal measures, rather than trying de-escalation? Why were so many quick to stereotype him as aggressive, violent, etc., when no one could have known what his actual thoughts and motives were in that moment (especially now that he's dead)? Why did they "need" to murder him when other gorillas in similar situations did not harm children and the situation was able to be resolved without their deaths?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binti_Juahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jambo ...Why not restructure society so the situation never would have occurred in the first place (i.e. by removing zoos altogether)? If getting justice for human victims is too politicized and complicated, why can't we have justice for a "mere" gorilla? Is any form of empathy and justice too difficult for Western Civilization to produce?
We might as well rally around a gorilla who is even more voiceless and powerless than human victims who have families, friends, and lawyers to speak for them. If we are truly sincere about having empathy and wanting justice for even the most powerless, that is.
On October 18, 2021, the 7-foot-tall (2.1 m) bronze statue Harambe was illegally placed in Bowling Green Park in New York City, facing the Charging Bull statue, which itself had originally been illegally placed. The act was carried out by organizers promoting Sapien.Network, a social media network who aim to put the needs of humans first. The statue of Harambe facing the bull, whose feet were surrounded by 10,000 bananas, was a statement about wealth disparity.[62]
Especially when all the publicity of this incident has caused Harambe to be continually exploited and his memory more tarnished than typical human murder victims... A "social media network who aim to put the needs of humans first". Like, seriously? That's why Harambe was murdered in the first place. The stronger people mock the incident and exploit it for their own gains, the stronger the unconscious yearning for real justice becomes.