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Over the next 10 minutes, Harambe became increasingly "agitated and disoriented" by the screams of onlookers. The 10 minutes figure is not provided in given references.
occasionally propping him up when he sat, or pushing him down when he stood. Not given in source.
On September 18, 2014, Harambe was transferred to the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden to learn adult gorilla behavior and join a new social group. Single sentence paragraph.
On naming contests for newborn baby gorillas, a teenager made a petition to Dublin Zoo to name a newborn baby gorilla as "Harambe Jr." ("Harambetta" if female) after Dublin Zoo announced the newborn baby gorilla by tweet. Single sentence paragraph.
On June 16, 2017, satire news site The Onion featured an article of professional wrestler The Big Show being killed by WWE after a seven-year-old boy wandered into a steel cage during a live event in Indianapolis. Single sentence paragraph.
The Later developments section is short.
4. Grammar & style
Change "Dicks out for Harambe" to "dicks out for Harambe".
Unitalicize Vox.
One meme is a play on conspiracy theories, such as "Bush did Harambe" Then it's more than one meme.
The dead gorilla had 5% support in late July 2016 (ahead of Green Party nominee Jill Stein) and 2% in August 2016 (tied with Stein). I believe the years are redundant in this sentence.
after being daily targeted by trolls Split infinitive.
Harambe vs. Capcom One source says "vs.", one says "vs", one says "Vs".
Unitalicize Otaku Gang.
Link the first occurence of "Dublin Zoo", unlink the second.
but she believed that zoos "with the highest standards of care" could play an important role. Change "but" to something else because this isn't contrasting the preceding text. Also, consider changing "could" to "can".
noting that a tranquilizer dart might have taken five or ten minutes to take effect Change "five or ten" to "five to ten".
Consider changing the zoo had resumed its account to the zoo resumed its account.
A self-described underground culture collective known as Otaku Gang Self-described?
Change entitled to titled.
5. Supporting materials
infoboxes
Consider adding more images.
Otherwise, ✓Pass
6. Accessibility
Consider changing "USDA" to "United States Department of Agriculture" or "United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)".
The game itself is a fullgame of M.U.G.E.N, a customizable fighting game. What is a fullgame?
@GreenC: You are correct that "aggressive animal behavior" is a reason for animal euthanasia. Such cases might include a dog found unsuitable for adoption because it is easily provoked to bite humans. This case has more similarity to a police officer entering a house with a warrant and shooting the owner's aggressive dog. More relevant terminology might be defense of others.
Yes, the decision was briefly considered before it was executed, but that doesn't change the nature of these events. It was an emergent situation, and Harambe was a healthy adult gorilla, behaving as one might expect from a healthy adult gorilla. The term "euthanasia" is reserved for cases where the animal is in some way dysfunctional and unable to live a healthy life.
Not sure if defense of others ("Right of self-defense") would be it, being a legal concept, because Harambe is an animal; usually when authorities kill an animal it is euthanization, it's more precise anyway than "Gunshot" which doesn't convey much beyond a literal proximate cause. Some sources:
[1]: "As a result her child fell into a gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo resulting in the innocent living creature being euthanized," one petitioner alleges.
[2] "A few years ago, I wrote a column about Harambe, the gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo who was euthanized after a child fell into his enclosure."
[3] "Since Harambe was euthanized by authorities at the Cincinnati Zoo back in May, much of the internet continues to mourn the loss of the fallen primate"
[4] "The death comes after an international uproar over the gorilla Harambe was euthanized at the Cincinnati Zoo on May 28, after a young boy fell into its enclosure."
[5] "A short time later, Harambe, the gorilla was euthanized."
[6] "The promotion was based on the silver back gorilla of that name who was euthanized at the Cincinnati zoo earlier this year when a child fell into his enclosure."
[7] "Harambe, the poor gorilla euthanized at the Cincinnatti Zoo earlier this year, lives on in the hearts and minds of the denizens of the internet, especially Pokemon fans."
[8] "Nagle posits that the Obama presidency’s veneer of reasoned sincerity led to the disingenuous clicktivism of the KONY 2012 movement and the social media vilification of the Cincinnati Zoo in the wake of their euthanizing Harambe the gorilla."
Source above include Associated Press and other reliable sources so I am unclear why you say the AP, NBC and others are unreliable. Did you actually look at the sources, or do you believe AP and NBC are unreliable? -- GreenC19:11, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The Al Arabiya English article is AP, yes, but as the quote you cited above indicates "euthanized" is a word a "petitioner" uses. NBC Boston, a local news source, is not the same as "NBC". This NBC article doesn't have "euthanasia".
I am unable to load the PDF document you added. But anyway, I think you're going about this the wrong way. You shouldn't start from the assumption that "euthanasia" is correct and then find sources that support that. Instead, you should review what reliable sources state and reflect that. ABC News and the BBC, go with a different wording, as does the New York Times ([11]), CNN ([12]), NBC ([13]) – this would suggest that "euthanasia" does not represent a mainstream view and using that wording would be WP:UNDUE. Robby.is.on (talk) 20:03, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Grabbed and Dragged
An editor has been removing the grabbed and dragged language from the lead section and replacing it with wording such as "cradled" ie. what mothers do with children. As the video shows, the child is dragged through the water at high speed. The wording grabbed and dragged is supported by the New York Times, and the overwhelming majority of sources portray the child as roughly handled. I'm concerned there is an attempt here to push a minority POV that Haramabe gently handled the child and by extension the shooting was not justifiable, or questionable. This POV is not well supported except in minority sources and should not be emphasized in the lead. -- GreenC04:08, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
As for 'roughly', used by the NYT, according to this source the boy suffered "serious -- albeit non-life-threatening -- injuries". And this source says "a concussion and a few scrapes... no broken bones or internal injuries". We don't know if the concussion was from the fall or being knocked around the pool, as he visibly was, but the NYT reports the dragging as the rough part. That is either accurate reporting or not, but NYT is reliable enough we can assume they emphasized the dragging as rough for reason. -- GreenC04:19, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I went through some of the sources and checked the relevant lines:
New York Times: "At times, he stood over the boy in what appeared to be a protective posture. But then he darted across the water, dragging the child roughly behind him"
ABC News: "the boy […] was picked up and carried around by the gorilla", "violently dragging and throwing the child"
BBC "the boy being dragged through shallow water by the animal"
CNN "pulled the boy across a moat", "dragging him through the water"
LA Times: "The gorilla […] stands over the tiny boy, then takes him at one point and gently props him up on his feet. Then suddenly, the gorilla grabs him by the ankle and sets off at a fast clip through the shallow moat, dragging the boy along.", "Whether the gorilla intended to hurt the boy was less an issue than the fact that he simply could do so by the brute force of swinging him around."
well sourced and ✓ Pass.