14 GOODBYE A Great ZOO BIDS FOND FAREWELL TO GORILLA BROTHERS The Detroit Zoo recently said goodbye to a beloved bachelor group of gorillas who called the Zoo home for two decades. Half-brothers Chipua “Chip,” Pendeka “Pende” and Kongo-Mbeli “Kongo” moved to the Cincinnati Zoo this summer. The move was recommended by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Gorilla Species Survival Plan (SSP), a cooperative management program ensuring the sustainability of healthy, genetically diverse and demographically varied populations of animals in human care. “This was not an easy goodbye,” says Aaron Jesue, mammal care staff for the Detroit Zoological Society (DZS). “We miss them so much, but we know they are
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