Although to the public eye zoos are kind to their animals, zoos kill their animals for trying to escape or for lashing out. When an animal out lashes in a zoo the result is the death of the animal for public safety reasons. One of the biggest cases of this is the gorilla, Harambe, who was killed in the Cincinnati Zoo due to the fact that a young boy fell into his enclosure. Another argument explained by Ben Guarino, writer for the Washington Post, is harambe dragged the boy out of the water to protect him, but that was seen as a lashing out. Therefore he was killed due to a human encounter. (Guarino par. 4). The little boy falling into his cage was not Hamabe’s fault that the boy fell into his enclosure; therefore, he should not have been killed for it. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), after the death of Harambe, declared that zoos do not meet the needs that gorillas have (Guarino par. 11). Thousands of animals activist around the nation were devastated to hear of Harambe’s death. PETA primatologist Julia Gallucci herself said, "Yet again, captivity has taken an animal's life"(qtd Guarino par. 12). In making this comment, Gallucci urges citizens to realize that captivity is killing animals. Despite the fact that numerous animals have been killed for reasons that are not their faults, a great deal of zoological groups has declined to let the public know the total amount of animals that were eliminated. Although the zoological groups will not release the results, spokesman of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria, David Williams, calculated roughly 1,735 animals are killed each year; zoos and animal parks that are not in the association are not included though, therefore there are most likely more deaths (Rising par. 2). At numerous small zoos, the public is put at risk due to the failure of security. In Maryland and Virginia zoo's, four cases of animals escaping from their cages have occurred over the last ten years. Some of the breakouts caused chaos throughout the zoos (Glosser par. 35). If an animal is not killed for trying to escape, it could be a case of a premature death that rarely happens to anything but natural causes in the wild.