KYIV — Tony the gorilla, like other African primates, hates the cold and it is a constant challenge for his keepers at Kyiv Zoo to keep him warm and comfortable in the face of hours-long power cuts every day caused by the war. Russia has been bombarding Ukraine's power grid and heating infrastructure in recent months and although it has...
A 48-year-old gorilla Tony sits next to a wood stove, which heats his enclosure, in Kyiv Zoo, amid Russia's attacks on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine on Jan 31, 2023.KYIV — Tony the gorilla, like other African primates, hates the cold and it is a constant challenge for his keepers at Kyiv Zoo to keep him warm and comfortable in the face of hours-long power cuts every day caused by the war.
"When the power is cut off and the heating stops, we have to think of a solution for our primates so they don't freeze. They need temperatures of at least 20 degrees Celsius," said Valentyna Dykarova, a primate specialist at Kyiv Zoo."That's why we've set up a wood fire oven here in the primate section... We fire the oven every morning so that he always has 20 degrees," she said, as the massive 48-year-old Tony — the zoo's only gorilla — watched impassively.
Help is also now at hand from Germany, where a team at Berlin Zoo has managed to raise 400,000 euros in contributions from well-wishers to pay for generators and other items. The generators will provide additional heating as well as electricity to the zoo, whose own generators are insufficient for its needs.
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