"He's so big that he could accidentally hurt that child, even if he didn't mean to. Consequently, he had to pay the price, no matter how fair or unfair everybody believes it is."
"In April, a zoo keeper in Palm Beach, Florida, was attacked by a Malayan tiger, and the zoo chose to tranquilize the endangered cat. Keeper Stacey Konwiser, 38, was airlifted in critical condition to a hospital, where she later died of her injuries."
And its not like there was only 100 of thoese species left, there is 175,000
And they say the tranquilizer would have likely gotten the gorilla upset and I would have taken a half hour to knock it out.
They did the right thing.