Mourning at Leipzig Zoo: Gorilla Kio is dead. The zoo announced that the seven-year-old western lowland gorilla died following an anesthetic, which had become necessary due to his poor state of health. Prior to this, the animal had increasingly refused to eat and showed clear symptoms of illness.
"The medication administered in the previous days had not worked," said zoo vet Andreas Bernhard. Despite the risk, it was therefore decided to give him an anesthetic. Kio died of circulatory failure during the procedure. The exact cause of the clinical picture is unclear, but is suspected to be in the digestive tract.
