A mysterious heart bone in chimps points to cardiac disease

Mongabay
Aug 28, 2020, 9:49 am244 pts
In 2008, a chimpanzee named Dorothy died suddenly due to heart failure at Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue in Cameroon. This year, another chimp battling cardiovascular disease, Tojo, died at Twycross Zoo in the U.K. For more than a decade, scientists have puzzled over heart troubles rife in chimps, monitoring…

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