HONG KONG — Zoo authorities in Hong Kong are keeping a close watch on a monkey that is behaving unusually a day after the ninth death this week of one of the animals while hastening tests to find out
what killed them. During the monitoring, the city’s Zoological and Botanical Gardens will keep shut its mammals section, after having closed it for disinfection and cleaning on Monday. “Government departments will speed up autopsy and toxicological testing,” the government said in a statement, as officials scrambled to pinpoint the cause of the deaths.
Authorities will also keep watching the status of a De Brazza’s monkey that has displayed unusual movement response and appetite since Monday, it said. Built in 1860, the territory’s oldest park houses about 158 birds, 80 mammals and 21 reptiles in roughly 40 enclosures. “The health conditions of all 80 animals in the HKZBG are normal,” the government said, while officials held an urgent meeting on Tuesday.
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