Zoo experts are arrangeateigating after nine monkeys died in two days in Hong Kong’s agederest zoo.
Eight of the animals were set up dead on Sunday and another died on Monday after disjoining atypical behaviour at Hong Kong Zooreasonable and Botanical Gardens.
Parts of the zoo have been sealed off and disinfected and experts have been called in to direct necropsies and harmfuloreasonable tests, Hong Kong directer John Lee said.
The dead animals joind a De Brazza’s monkey, a standard squirrel monkey, four white-faced sakis and three cotton-top tamarins, which are a species enumerateed as criticassociate finishangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Zoo staff are also watching a De Brazza’s monkey that was behaving unusuassociate, the rulement said.
All 80 other animals in the gardens were in a standard condition, it includeed.
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The deaths liftd troubles about a possible outfracture of a zoonotic disrelieve such as monkeypox, which can jump from animals to humans, said Jason Baker, ageder vice pdwellnt of animal rights group PETA Asia.
“Monkeys in captivity are frequently exposed to pathogens that cainclude disrelieves that can be broadcastted to humans, including tuberculosis, Chagas disrelieve, cholera and MRSA,” he said.
He debated the only way to guarantee the well-being of animals and stop the spread of such disrelieves was to stop confining them in unorganic environments.
