On May 28, 2016, a three-year-old[7] boy visiting the Cincinnati Zoo fell into the moat at the Gorilla World habitat.[8] Witnesses said they heard the child say he wanted to go into the gorilla enclosure.[9] The boy then climbed a 3-foot-tall (0.91 m) fence, crawled through 4 feet (1.2 m) of bushes, and then fell 15 feet (4.6 m) into a moat of shallow water. Zoo officials immediately signaled for the three gorillas in the habitat to return inside, and two females did so. However, the third gorilla, the inquisitive 440-pound (200 kg) male silverback, Harambe, climbed down into the moat to investigate the child splashing in the water.[8]