This ape's life was cherished more than many humans. It died! So what?
It can only die once. Would the ape have known the difference between dying now or later?
It can only die once. Would the ape have known the difference between dying now or later?
Lincoln Park Zoo laying groundwork for blood bank for apes - Chicago Tribune: "In a last-ditch effort to save her life, veterinarian and keepers anesthetized both Mumbali and Kwan, a male gorilla, then laid them side by side to send Kwan's blood directly from his arm into hers.
It was a crude procedure, similar to the way transfusions were done for humans before the blood bank was invented at Cook County Hospital in 1937.
But there was little to go on in the veterinary literature, which had nothing about whether or not gorillas have different A-B-O blood groups like humans or if they needed to have blood matched to their own for a successful transfusion.
'It's one of the most basic pieces of knowledge we need for the care of our animals, and it simply wasn't there,' ape-keeper Jill Moyse said."
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