Hannah McNulty

However, one twisted limb or knock to the head, that would have been a very different story.

Even once Harambe was waiting by the door of the enclosure, he could have freaked out at any moment and dragged the boy to somewhere he thought was safe.

Lots of people have also asked, why didn't they just use a tranquiliser dart?

As anyone who's watched Animal Planet will tell you, tranquilisers take minutes to fully sedate an animal, especially one the size of Harambe.

Being hit by a dart would have almost certainly caused him to panic and therefore risk the life of the boy.

He's three years old.

And that crowd hammered the boy's family on social media.

Initially, the mum put out a Facebook post saying that people were quick to judge her parenting and that she was just grateful that the right people had been there to save her son from harm.

This post, while entirely understandable, did absolutely nothing to quell the anger.

And within days, a petition on change.org had reached half a million signatures asking for local authorities to conduct an investigation on the child's home environment.

The family pulled back from social media and was eventually forced to move to another state to start again.

Without all the hate.

Yeah.

Eventually, when the dust settled, neither the mother nor the zoo were formally prosecuted for Harambe's death or the three-year-old boy's safety.

However, the zoo was forced to erect a better and less penetrable fence around the gorilla enclosure.

Which, like, I'm looking at pictures of and I'm like, are you fucking for real?

Looking at the old barrier.

It is a significantly better barrier.

The new barrier is like... Even the smallest child isn't getting through that.

Yeah, like, it's like, it's not even as good as the barrier my parents have put up around our garden to stop our dog escaping.