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Although he failed to register at the Medical School this term. Makoko, a massive 450 pound gorilla, still makes a daily appearance at the anatomy classes of Dr. George E. Erikson, assistant professor of General Education in Biology...
...Erikson, embalmer and owner of the primate, uses Makoko to demonstrate prosection methods. The anatomist also is making a private study of the gorilla from an evolutionary standpoint...
...beast, originally from the Belgian Congo, gained considerable notoriety last June when he fell in a moat at his Bronx Zoo home and promptly drowned. After rescue efforts of his keeper failed to revive him, Makoko was put on ice and Dr. Erikson was hastily summoned...
Yesterday the zoo--which calls Makoko "the finest specimen in the world"--embalmed the ape and sent the body to the Medical School, the brain to Columbia...
...years old, Makoko was valued at $75,000. The zoo hoped to mate him with 12-years-old Oka in the next cage and thus produce the first baby gorillas spawned in captivity. When Makoko died, a keeper predicted that Oka "will know what's happened. She'll grieve. She won't live now." Instead, she padded around her cage yesterday as if nothing had happened. A zoo official, according to the Associated Press, said the faithless Oka didn't even miss Makoko...