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A Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden worker's thumb was partially amputated after a bonobo attacked during morning feeding Friday, the zoo said. The employee has been stabilized at a hospital and was being treated, the zoo said in a statement Friday afternoon. The bonobo bit through a protective mesh barrier as the primate care worker was giving food and medicine to the animals during morning rounds, the zoo said.
Gilda, an 18-year-old bonobo, gave birth to a boy on Sept. 8 at the institution, the zoo said. On Sept. 30, the zoo posted video of the pair making their first public appearance in their habitat. The bonobo is a primate closely related to chimpanzees. The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources lists the bonobo as an endangered species with a population on the decline because of development, civil unrest and mining in its native Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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