Dosi Body For Postmortem

Feb 17, 2003

EXPERTS are to perform a post-mortem on the carcass of the 14-year-old male chimpanzee, Dosi, gunned down last Saturday,

EXPERTS are to perform a post-mortem on the carcass of the 14-year-old male chimpanzee, Dosi, gunned down last Saturday, reports Gerald Tenywa.
Barbara Musoke, the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) spokesperson, said yesterday that a medical report would be submitted to the Ministry of Health.
“It is necessary because Dosi has been roaming the villages around Kigungu and we have to establish if he was carrying any diseases,’’ Musoke said.
Two veterinary doctors from UWA and the Ministry of Agriculture will carry out the post-mortem before a “decent burial.” The carcass is lying at the pathology department of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Makerere University.
Chimps are listed under Appendix 1 of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) as endangered animals.
Dosi was under the custody of the Jane Goodall Institute, an international NGO working for the conservation and welfare of chimps.
The institute reportedly wanted the primate removed from the Kitwe Point Sanctuary in Tanzania to a safer place because their previous home was underfunded.
Dosi and two other chimps, Kipala and Zorro, were imported into the country from Tanzania last July.
Zorro was killed on the orders of Dr. Nicholas Kauta, the commissioner in charge of livestock, after tests showed he had a human form of tuberculosis. Kipala, the surviving chimp, is living under stress and becomes aggressive when he sees any one armed or in army uniform, Musoke said.
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