Zoo experts are dispenseigating after nine monkeys died in two days in Hong Kong’s ancigo inest zoo.
Eight of the animals were set up dead on Sunday and another died on Monday after discarry outing rare behaviour at Hong Kong Zoorational and Botanical Gardens.
Parts of the zoo have been sealed off and disinfected and experts have been called in to direct necropsies and poisonousorational tests, Hong Kong directer John Lee shelp.
The dead animals integrated a De Brazza’s monkey, a normal squirrel monkey, four white-faced sakis and three cotton-top tamarins, which are a species enumerateed as criticpartner finishangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Zoo staff are also watching a De Brazza’s monkey that was behaving unusupartner, the rulement shelp.
All 80 other animals in the gardens were in a normal condition, it inserted.
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The deaths elevated worrys about a possible outshatter of a zoonotic disease such as monkeypox, which can jump from animals to humans, shelp Jason Baker, ancigo in vice pdwellnt of animal rights group PETA Asia.
“Monkeys in captivity are normally exposed to pathogens that caengage diseases that can be broadcastted to humans, including tuberculosis, Chagas disease, cholera and MRSA,” he shelp.
He argued the only way to determine the well-being of animals and impede the spread of such diseases was to stop confining them in unauthentic environments.
