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Baby gibbons stolen from French zoo
(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-07-17 09:57

Thieves broke into a French zoo and snatched year-old twin baby gibbons after throwing their mother into the moat around their island home, the site's manager said Thursday.

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Keepers at the Frejus Zoological Park discovered what had happened on Tuesday morning after finding the female ape, 15-year-old Micha, soaking wet and in distress.

"She was distraught," zoo director Guy Mascheffa said after making a formal police complaint. "The babies are in danger of dying because any change in their diet can be fatal and provoke serious diarrhoea."