THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) — The Bronx Zoo has lost a beloved member of its animal kingdom.
Ntondo, a Western Lowland Gorilla who had called the Bronx home for over a decade, died on Sunday, the zoo announced. He was 32.
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The zoo said preliminary findings indicate that Ntondo died of an “acute cardiac event.”
Ntondo had become very popular with television audiences and zoo visitors after being featured in Animal Planet’s 2017 docuseries, “THE ZOO.” His story was told after diagnostic tests confirmed Ntondo had glaucoma and left him blind…