Federal regulators have determined that the Cincinnati Zoo enclosure that housed Harambe -- the gorilla that inspired countless memes -- was not up to their standards. SEE ALSO: People are wasting ...

On Memorial Day weekend in 2016, a four-year-old boy climbed into the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo, encountering Harambe, a 17-year-old, 400-pound silverback gorilla. The ensuing ...

The Cincinnati Zoo's Harambe is not the first zoo gorilla to encounter a child in his enclosure, but he is one of the first to die as a result Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE.

“It looks like Harambe,” said the coworker. Zoo officials at the Cincinnati Zoo shot and killed Harambe, a gorilla, after a three-year-old child fell into the animal’s enclosure ...

We saw it only weeks ago with Harambe, the gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo into whose enclosure a young boy fell. The zoo has been accused of inadequate barriers, the child's mother was brought ...

Harambe was shot and killed at the Cincinnati Zoo in May 2016 after a child slipped into his enclosure Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...