It’s really sad

_Elsa_

Rachel’s phone rings and it’s Tiffi calling. 

“Hi Rachel, I spoke to all the girls,” says Tiffi. “Jelly Queen is going to the Cotton Kingdom to check on Cupcake Carl and Liquorice Larry. Olivia can’t make it because she’s very busy helping the players with their levels and Misty hasn’t called me back yet. So it’s just the two of us going to the zoo.” 

Rachel says that’s fine and they plan when and where to meet. Rachel goes back to her googling.

‘On Sunday, February 9, 2014, at the Copenhagen Zoo, a 2-year-old giraffe stretched out its neck toward an inviting piece of bread held between the fingers of a keeper. Marius grasped the treat with his long tongue, pulled it into his mouth, and received a bullet in his brain. Then, before a crowd of zoogoers, including children, Marius’s corpse was cut apart and fed to the zoo’s lions. 

This story reverberated through international news. Zoo spokespeople told the world that the giraffe required execution to eliminate its genes from the breeding program. And Danish law supposedly prohibited the sale of Marius despite offers, one of which exceeded half a million dollars. Yet keeping the giraffe would simply be too costly.’ (Source) 

Tears are now running down Rachel’s face. She can’t believe the cruelty that these animals of the wild go through.

‘On May 28, 2016, a small boy fell into the gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo. What happened next prompted internet outrage across the world: a gorilla was killed. A gorilla named "Harambe".

Harambe was the 17-year-old western lowland gorilla who had noticed that the boy fell into the enclosure. He approached the boy and grabbed him. Video shows Harambe dragging the young boy around the retaining pool in the enclosure as onlookers shout and scream in response.

The incident ended with the "difficult but right" decision to terminate Harambe, according to zoo officials. The parents of the child were not charged.

Petitions on the internet sprung up, including one called "Justice for Harambe", which demanded that "proper LEGAL action is taken in this matter and responsible parties are held accountable if the investigation finds that there was negligence involved." That petition attained over 10,000 signatures in a few days and sits at well over half a million signatures before it finally closed.

The fallout of Harambe's death was even more widespread. It even caused the Cincinnati Zoo to delete their Twitter account for a while.’ (Source)

Rachel remembers when Elsa told her this story. She is saddened about this story because the gorilla really was just bringing the toddler to safety but people didn’t see it that way. She’s glad that animal rights got involved. She has had enough reading for the day. She has to go prepare dinner for Rancid.

Let’s continue - Let’s go to the zoo

Start at the beginning – The girls go to the zoo