Gorillas at San Diego Zoo test positive for coronavirus

CNET ^ | January 11, 2021

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It's not just humans who have been impacted by the global coronavirus pandemic. Pet cats have tested positive, as has a tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York. On Monday, the San Diego Zoo announced that members of its gorilla troop have COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus.

The gorillas reside at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, a 1,800-acre facility that houses rhinos, cheetahs, elephants, giraffes and the endangered gorillas.

[sheana]

I know someone who got tested at CVS. Came back positive. He started looking at the paperwork and it actually stated that there was a 50/50 chance the test was accurate. He went somewhere else and tested negative. I think these false positives are where all their ‘asymptomatic’ cases are coming from. They don’t really have it.

[hanamizu]

OK - who will put the gorillas’ masks on?

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My wife watches a lot of zoo shows. The zoos all train the animals to submit to medical procedures, to present their face, hands or chests etc., so I imagine a gorilla might well let a keeper put a mask on. Now making the gorilla keep the mask on, that’s another thing entirely.

The primates tend to hate the veterinarians and will throw poo at them when given the chance.