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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Metroparks Zoo

Metroparks Zoo stories: 1 news summaries

 Taming Gorilla Heart 
 Disease a Beastly Task 

With great apes dying at alarming rates, zoos try to train some difficult patients

(Newser) - With heart disease nearly epidemic among America’s captive gorilla population, zookeepers are trying to train the great apes to submit to the human medical procedures that could save their lives. But getting a gorilla to sit still for a blood test is a taxing problem, one the National Zoo... More »

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