Boris had been at the zoo since 1969, having been rescued from a pet shop window in New York.
A 58-year-old chimpanzee who was rescued from a pet shop in New York and brought to the UK in the 1960s has died, zoo bosses have announced.The animal came to the zoo in 1969, having been taken from its mother by illegal wildlife traders and ending up in the window of a New York pet shop, the zoo said.
The zoo said its teams had been reflecting on the “extraordinary legacy” Boris had had on the critically endangered species. He said Boris had "a raft of descendants right around the world", including seven - Annie, Stevie, Toyah, Eric, Patti, Alice and Jeff - who are still at Chester Zoo.Mr Jordan said the chimpanzee had left "an extraordinary legacy, made all the more remarkable given his difficult start to life which saw him orphaned as a baby".
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