Kolkata, April 08: A 22-year-old chimpanzee died after falling from a tree at Alipore zoo here today, officials said.
“Jessy, a female chimpanzee, while jumping from one tree to another in its enclosure slipped and fell to the ground and received a head injury,” zoo director Raju Das said.
The animal, brought from the US in 1997, fell unconscious after the fall.
She was rushed to the zoo hospital where she succumbed to the injury, he said.
Though past her prime, Jessy could have lived some more years had she not suffered the fall, Das said.
–Agencies