Gorillas have been placed on lockdown amid fears the'll contract coronavirus.
There's growing fear endangered mountain gorillas -- our closest relatives in the animal kingdom -- could contract COVID-19, and it's triggered a lockdown of sorts.
On the heels of a Bronx Zoo tiger testing positive for the coronavirus -- researches in Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo are concerned the great apes in that area could suffer the same fate. They've put an immediate halt on all tourism related to encounters with the gorillas. Sanctuaries for other apes, like orangutans, have also closed to the public ... according to the BBC. The concern is the virusan endangered species -- infections disease is one of the top 3 threats to some great apes.
Consider this ... research has shown chimps can contract the common cold virus, and ebola is believed to have killed THOUSANDS of chimps and gorillas in Africa during that outbreak.
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