Federal judge orders gorilla’s return to Cincinnati Zoo
CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal judge has again ordered a California group to return a male silverback gorilla to the Ohio zoo where he was born.
U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg ruled Friday in San Francisco that northern California’s Gorilla Foundation must transfer 37-year-old Ndume (nnn-DOO’-may) to the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden on Thursday.
Zoo officials sought to bring Ndume home after Koko, the gorilla famed for learning sign language, died last June and left
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