(Dagbladet): Last night was all Norway’s national chimp, Julius (36), placed on the operating table after having ended up in a fight with two female chimpanzees at his home in Kristiansand Zoo.
According to NRK, which first publicized case, the Julius have tried to stop an argument between family members, which ended with a foul galore lip.
Thus, carried it into the operating room, where the furry 36-year-old was put under general anesthesia.
Tense vets
– cut lip stitched, and Julius is on the mend, says CEO of Kristiansand Zoo, Per Arnstein Aamot, to Dagbladet.
Julius has never been sedated with anesthesia before, and zoo-veterinary Rolf Arne Ølberg was excited before the operation.
– There’s always a risk with anesthesia, but Julius handled it very well. He was stable and fine, and was soon on his feet again after surgery. And we got removed a bad tooth simultaneously tells Ølberg Dagbladet.
The vet explained that chimpanzee flocks often clash.
– As it usually goes away not so far that some ports on the operating table. But chimpanzees are often disagree, they argue, discuss and hold on. It comes to show off in a chimpanzee troop, and they bicker happy about who is top of the ladder, he says.
Attacks foster fathers
– How was the mood between Julius and the two hunnsjimpansene afterwards?
– Julius was not mad at them, they were friends again immediately says Ølberg.
It’s not the first time Julius ports in klinsj with their nearest .
In 2012, he attacked in his old foster fathers across the armor glass notably.
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