The ''Harambe'' statue is a seven-foot-tall, bronze sculpture of the deceased western lowland gorilla

Harambe Harambe ( ; May 27, 1999 – May 28, 2016) was a western lowland gorilla who lived at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, Cincinnati Zoo. On May 28, 2016, a three-year-old boy visiting the zoo climbed under a fence into an outdoor gorilla ...

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, facing the ''

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'' statue. Beneath ''Charging Bull'' were 10,000 bananas (later donated to charity). On October 26, 2021, it was briefly placed in front of the

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The

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was apparently cast in five pieces by using a "

lost wax technique Lost-wax castingalso called investment casting, precision casting, or ''cire perdue'' (; borrowed from French)is the process by which a duplicate sculpture (often a metal, such as silver, gold, brass, or bronze) is cast from an original sculpt ...

", and soldered together by an unrevealed artist commissioned by Ankit Bhatia and Robert Giometti of ''Sapien.Network'' group.

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Multiple news agencies reported on the ''Harambe'' statue. News of the statue reached beyond North America and NBC New York's initial covering of the statue. The French newspaper ''

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'' covered the incident.

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