Death of Orangutan Jambi Sparks Much Needed Improvements to Mexico City Zoo Latin American Herald Tribune
go to original September 12, 2015

Investigan causa de muerte de orangután de Chapultepec (Azteca Noticias)

The death in July of the orangutan Jambi at Mexico City’s Chapultepec Zoo has raised criticism about the care given to animals at the facility, where the administration, while rejecting the criticism, now acknowledges that it is working to improve conditions.

“He died out of negligence because they paid no attention to our alternative,” the president of the Mexican chapter of the Great Ape Project, Paulina Bermudez, told EFE, adding that months before she had offered to take Jambi and his brother Toto to a reserve in Brazil.

On the other hand, Mexico City’s general director of zoos and wildlife, Juan Arturo Rivera, said that during Jambi’s illness, he “was constantly attended by veterinarians, specialists and people who had always cared for him – it was an unfortunate death” due to acute kidney failure.

Yet it was the hypothesis of death through lack of care that accompanied the goodbyes to the beloved Jambi, a 25-year-old orangutan born and raised, along with the 24-year-old Toto, at Chapultepec Zoo, where they lived the first years of their lives in close contact with humans.

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