Word: oka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...hopelessly inept. "The supposition," laments Father Gabriel, "is that Trappists are great agriculturists. But that isn't the case here. They're all city kids." The community is fattening 200 steers, starting a large vegetable garden and 75 acres of corn. Next year it may begin making Oka cheese, a Trappist specialty...