Gorilla Catches Influenza and Succumbs.

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Gorilla Catches Influenza and Succumbs.

Description

Short article describing the brief life of Dick the Gorilla who, after being removed from Africa and brought to the Regents Park zoo in London by the African explorer Dr. Ansorge, found the new climate uninhabitable and died from influenza. The article states that Dick was the sixth gorilla to have died after being brought to Regents Park.

Identifier

BP09.03-04

Source

Pickard's Papers: Zoological Items

Publisher

Pickard's Papers project. Britannia Panopticon Music Hall Trust / University of Glasgow / Heritage Lottery Fund

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Newspaper cutting

Language

English

Type

Newsprint cutting

Newspaper

Daily Record and Mail

Date

28/03/1903

Collection

BP09 Zoological Items

Citation

“Gorilla Catches Influenza and Succumbs.,” Pickard's Papers, accessed April 19, 2024, https://www.pickardspapers.gla.ac.uk/items/show/2672.