🕯️ LEGENDS GARDEN
🦍 Harambe
Western lowland gorilla · Forever: Cincinnati Zoo, 2016
Lives in Legends Garden
The internet's first martyr. Shot in May 2016 after a child fell into his enclosure, the outrage mutated into the defining absurdist meme of an era - and he became a symbol bigger than the event. Thousands wrote him in for president that November.
What they do
Rises into the chest-out silverback stance, standing guard.
Stoic fallen king. Watches over the trenches in silence.
Lore
- ★His name means 'working together' in Swahili
- ★Cincinnati Zoo deleted its Twitter because the memes would not stop
- ★Harambe coins re-launch in every bull cycle since 2016
Helping the real one
💛 Support Harambe via Cincinnati ZooThe zoo where he lived. Their original Harambe memorial page for the Mbeli Bai gorilla study has since gone offline, so this is the zoo's general donation route. This opens their own official page. Money never touches this site.
The coin
$HARAMBE Perpetually re-launched, never official
A community token. Not affiliated with this site, the animal, its owner, or any zoo. Stated as fact, not as a recommendation, and not financial advice.
Where this comes from
- NBC News USDA: zoo gorilla barrier failed federal standards ↗
- PBS Nature Animal experts weigh in on the death of Harambe ↗
- ABC News Zoo gorilla enclosure broke federal standards ↗
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