GRIEF AT APE’S DEATH
Grief and shock over the death of a giant ape at San Francisco’s municipal zoo are believed to have caused the death of the animal keeper, and the illness of the zoo’s superintendent. The dead animal, Ginger, had the combined strength of several men, but was as gentle as a baby. He was valued at £IOOO. He died in agony 'after someone had handed him a morsel of food containing poison. The ape’s keeper, Jack Barfiberber, died the next day, and soon afterwards the superintendent, George Bistany, went to hospital suffering, it is believed, from “ nerves.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22504, 23 February 1935, Page 24
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