{"id":26246,"date":"2009-03-30T15:18:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T15:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/30\/six-bonobos-die-in-sanctuary\/"},"modified":"2009-03-30T15:18:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T15:18:19","slug":"six-bonobos-die-in-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/30\/six-bonobos-die-in-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Bonobos Die in Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-02a55a0cd26470ed5f80e90bcdb1ce8a-kindu1-1.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-02a55a0cd26470ed5f80e90bcdb1ce8a-kindu1-1.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Six bonobos, a species of chimpanzee, have died from a flu epidemic in a month at the Lola Ya Bonobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Ten more have contracted the flu.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These are apes in a rehab center, and apparently the flu (we&#8217;ll assume for the moment that the diagnosis is accurate, but keep in mind that the term &#8220;flu&#8221; has different meanings in different parts of the world) hits hard and the animal dies in a few days after showing symptoms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2009\/0329-hance_bonobos.html\"><br \/>\nDetails here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six bonobos, a species of chimpanzee, have died from a flu epidemic in a month at the Lola Ya Bonobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Ten more have contracted the flu. These are apes in a rehab center, and apparently the flu (we&#8217;ll assume for the moment that the diagnosis is accurate, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/30\/six-bonobos-die-in-sanctuary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six Bonobos Die in Sanctuary<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Pk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}