Colombian escaped chimps killed by police: ‘It’s like losing a family member’

Tue Jul 25 2023
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Cali, Colombia: Circus owner Raul Gasca is saddened by the death of Pancho, one of the two chimpanzees who were shot dead by the police after escaping a zoo in the Colombian city of Pereira. Gasca worked with Pancho at his circus, before donating him to a zoo. “Panchito was like a person. No animal can match the intelligence of a chimpanzee, none,” he says.

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