Astonishing Case
Another gorilla would become famous around the world over twenty years before the term ‘Harambe’ was even heard. A crowd of horrified visitors to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago watched in terror when a 3-year-old kid fell 15 feet into the zoo’s gorilla enclosure on August 16, 1996.
The kid lay unconscious, only a few steps away from the den’s seven resident adult gorillas, after suffering injuries from the massive fall.