00:00In the last few hours, through social media and communication channels,
00:04this video shows the minutes prior to the sacrifice of Pancho,
00:08one of the two chimpanzees that escaped from the park Ukumari in the afternoon of the evening.
00:12In him, he sees how Pancho, who had more than 30 years old,
00:15walks over his four extremities and goes towards a place in which there were people.
00:24According to the declarations that gave him the 24th of July,
00:27the manager of Ukumari, Sandra Correa, Pancho reached the area of Konzotá,
00:33where there is a park in which there are also cabañas,
00:36in which for the moment in which there was the escape of the chimpanzee,
00:39there were people alojadas.
00:41In fact, at the end of the video that has circulated in the last few hours,
00:44you can see when the police and the army arrive at the area.
00:49A far away, you can hear when one of the uninformations asks
00:52that they can get away from the animal to be able to shoot.
01:00Although the facts that ended up with the sacrifice of Pancho and Chita
01:04are matter of investigation by the Procuraduría and the Fiscalía,
01:08several biologists and veterinarians consulted by The Espectador
01:11coincided in that the executed protocol in this case was adequate.
01:16The first thing we have to clarify, as the manager Correa said,
01:19is that since a animal comes to a zoológico, biopark or a similar institution,
01:24it is established a protocol for different events that can go from a storm or a storm
01:29to a fuga.
01:30Luz Rodríguez, médica veterinarian of fauna silvestre of the University of CES,
01:35told us that they are animals with a capacity of attack and defense high.
01:39These characteristics lead to that in a eventual enfrentamiento,
01:43hombre-chimpancé, no chance of controlling the animals.
01:48Tanto Correa, as the experts consulted by this newspaper, coincided in that
01:52the use of the dardos tranquilizantes was discarded for this situation,
01:57because the effect could take between 10 and 30 minutes,
02:00the time in which the chimpanzees could attack the
02:03caregivers or the people who were close to the animals.
02:07The veterinarians and biologists agree with two additional points.
02:11The first one is that it is a decision dolorous to take,
02:14but necessary to avoid loss of human lives.
02:17The second one is that the real problem in these cases is the illegal traffic of fauna
02:22that leads to that animals like Cheetah and Pancho
02:25end up in these bioparks where professionals from diverse areas
02:29effortlessly work to give a second opportunity to animals that,
02:32for different reasons, cannot return to the silvestre life.
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