Sunday, 19 November 2017

Hairless Chimpanzee Enjoying His Food

Hairless chimpanzee is really enjoying his food. The zoo staff put it a lot of vegetables in a bottle and some wood shavings to make it a bit harder to get to. You can see Jambo removing the wood shaving and eating the vegetables. Jambo suffers from alopecia, which is the general medical term for hair loss. There is always a debate going on is he black is he white. Neither, his colour actually changes from pink to quite dark during the year.
Twycross Zoo is building a new enclosure for the chimpanzees and should be ready next year!






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