Harambe the Gorilla Memorial at the Cincinnati Zoo

Harambe

Laughing Squid partner David Klass visited the Cincinnati Zoo yesterday and while there he shot photo of the Harambe memorial visitors have created around the gorilla statue outside of the Gorilla World exhibit.

Harambe, a 17 year-old male silverback gorilla, was tragically shot and killed by zoo officials on May 28th after a three year-old boy fell into the gorilla enclosure and they feared that he might by injured the gorilla.

photo by David Klass

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Scott Beale is the founder of Laughing Squid and is based in New York City. When not running the blog, Scott can be found posting on Threads and sharing photos on Instagram.