Five years after his death, Harambe the gorilla has found a new place to be memorialized— New York City.
A seven-foot statue of the gorilla, who was killed in 2016 by an emergency response team protecting a 3-year-old boy who fell into his exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, has appeared in New York City's Bowling Green Park on Wall Street, opposite the famous Charging Bull statue.
According to local news reports, the bananas surrounding the bull statue are part of a protest from Sapien.Network, meant to illustrate how "bananas" Wall Street and the wealth disparity in the country has become.
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The bananas will be later donated to local New York City food banks.
Harambe's death sparked controversy, and the gorilla soon became a social media and meme icon.
Sapien.Network is a planned Ethereum-based social media site dedicated to "privacy, independent communities and quality connections between our fellow humans," according to the platform's website.
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