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Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Saw this yesterday and was saddened by it...

Yahoo! News - World's Only Known Albino Gorilla Dies

I guess being albino may have made him more susceptible for skin cancer. It's good that people were able to come say goodbye. I guess, on one hand, he lived much longer than he would have in the wild. Still, he spent more years in a zoo than I've been alive. They've come a long way in that time, but I can't imagine being locked up and on display for that long. I hope he had a good life with plenty of interaction with his own kind. It sounds like it.

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