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Title: Cleveland zoo says 32-year-old gorilla has died
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Tampa Bay Times
URL Source: http://www.tbo.com/ap/national/clev ... af66d1979241358de3af49e490b30d
Published: Jan 7, 2017
Author: AP
Post Date: 2017-01-07 21:42:04 by Dakmar
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CLEVELAND (AP) — One of the Cleveland's zoo's two male western lowland gorillas died on Friday, zoo officials said. Cleveland Metroparks Zoo first announced the death of 32-year-old Bebac on its Facebook page. Zoo Executive Director Chris Kuhar called Bebac one of the zoo's iconic animals in an interview Saturday. Dozens of tributes along with photos of Bebac taken by zoo visitors were posted on Facebook. Bebac, pronounced BEE'-bak, and 29-year-old Mokolo, pronounced mo-KO'-lo, came to the Cleveland zoo in 1994 from Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, where they both were born. The zoo's medical staff struggled to find a treatment to make Bebac well after his health began deteriorating a month ago, Kuhar said. Gorillas living in captivity have an average life expectancy of about 30 years. "It's been hard on the staff," Kuhar said. "It's like losing a family member." Bebac and Mokolo were diagnosed with heart conditions in 2008, a chronic problem for zoo gorillas, and put on medications used to treat high blood pressure in humans. Poster Comment: How did the pharmaceutical industry manage to take over every aspect of life as we know it?
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#1. To: Dakmar (#0)
Congressional legislative directives, rules, and regulations. Bend over America, this shot in the ass is for you! “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Gorillas living in captivity have an average life expectancy of about 30 years. Bebac evidently was well cared for. How did the pharmaceutical industry manage to take over every aspect of life as we know it?
#2. To: Dakmar (#0)
the death of 32-year-old Bebac
-Alex Kurtagic
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