SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Members of a gorilla troop at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park have tested positive for the coronavirus.
The zoo says two members of the troop began exhibiting a cough on Jan. 6. Zoo staff collected fecal samples from the gorillas and tested them for the virus.
Two days later, preliminary results showed the presence of COVID-19 in the gorilla troop. Those results were confirmed on Jan. 11. While the results only confirmed COVID-19 in two of the gorillas, the zoo says that doesn’t rule out the virus in other members of the troop.
