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‘RIP Harambe’: Five Years After Death, Photo Of Gorilla To Be Sold As An NFT

Ian Haworth
‘RIP Harambe’: Five Years After Death, Photo Of Gorilla To Be Sold As An NFT
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Five years after the controversial death of Harambe the gorilla, who was shot dead in 2016 after a three-year-old boy fell into his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo, an image of the iconic primate is being auctioned as a non-fungible token (NFT).

The photo being sold at auction as an NFT is the one of the first taken by Harambe’s official photographer, Jeff McCurry, who “took thousands of photos of Harambe over the course of 14 months,” according to the BBC.

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