Tragedy struck the Singapore zoo's primates a second time in a week, when a young female orang utan died of a dislocated neck in a freak accident yesterday. At mid-day, Atina, aged two-and-a-half years, caught her neck in a hanging noose, which was part of a hammock in the apes' enclosure.Her mother Anita and other orang utans, in their haste to free her, tugged at her neck, dislocating it. She died instantly, said a zoo spokesman. Zookeepers could not reach Atina on time because her mother kept pushing them away.
The tragedy comes less than a week after Ah Meng, Singapore's famous orang utan died of old age. Ah Meng has appeared in more than 30 travel films and was the only non-human to receive a special award from the Singapore Tourism Board in recognition for her contribution towards tourism in Singapore.
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