Harambe was born at Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas, on May 27, 1999. He was named by Dan Van Coppenolle, a local area counselor who won a naming contest sponsored by the zoo. [4] …

Harambe, gorilla who was shot and killed at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden on May 28, 2016, after a three-year-old boy fell into his exhibit. Harambe’s death sparked a national debate regarding …

May 29, 2025 · Harambe, a 17-year-old western lowland gorilla weighing 400 pounds, lived in the enclosure. The aftermath of this human coming face to face with the wildlife became a poignant and …

May 29, 2025 · Harambe, a 17-year-old western lowland gorilla, was fatally shot at the Cincinnati Zoo after a 3-year-old boy fell into his enclosure. What followed was a global outpouring of grief, rage, …

May 26, 2023 · Harambe was a 450-pound silverback western lowland gorilla. He was born at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas, on May 27, 1999, and came to Cincinnati in September 2014.

Harambe was a western lowland gorilla who lived at the Cincinnati Zoo. On May 28, 2016, a three-year-old boy visiting the zoo climbed under a fence into an outd...

It’s been almost nine years since Harambe, the 17-year-old Western lowland gorilla, was shot and killed at the Cincinnati Zoo, but one lingering question has continued to haunt the public: Why wasn’t he …

Aug 18, 2025 · Harambe was a Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla), a critically endangered species native to the rainforests of Central Africa. His death highlighted the precarious situation …

Harambe—the western lowland gorilla shot and killed by Cincinnati Zoo officials on Saturday —wasn’t acting with abnormal aggression when he dragged a young child around after the boy fell into...

May 27, 2021 · On May 28, 2016, the day after his seventeenth birthday, Harambe, a western lowland gorilla, was shot and killed at the Cincinnati Zoo after a little boy fell into the gorilla enclosure.