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.

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 ...

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 ...