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Dosi Body for Postmortem

February 18, 2003


EXPERTS are to perform a post-mortem on the carcass of the 14-year-old 
male chimpanzee, Dosi, gunned down last Saturday, reports Gerald Tenywa.



Barbara Musoke, the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) spokesperson, said 
yesterday that a medical report would be submitted to the Ministry of 
Health.



"It is necessary because Dosi has been roaming the villages around 
Kigungu and we have to establish if he was carrying any diseases," 
Musoke said.



Two veterinary doctors from UWA and the Ministry of Agriculture will 
carry out the post-mortem before a "decent burial." The carcass is 
lying at the pathology department of the Faculty of Veterinary 
Medicine, Makerere University.



Chimps are listed under Appendix 1 of the Convention on International 
Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) as endangered animals.



Dosi was under the custody of the Jane Goodall Institute, an 
international NGO working for the conservation and welfare of chimps.



The institute reportedly wanted the primate removed from the Kitwe 
Point Sanctuary in Tanzania to a safer place because their previous 
home was underfunded.



Dosi and two other chimps, Kipala and Zorro, were imported into the 
country from Tanzania last July.



Zorro was killed on the orders of Dr. Nicholas Kauta, the commissioner 
in charge of livestock, after tests showed he had a human form of 
tuberculosis. Kipala, the surviving chimp, is living under stress and 
becomes aggressive when he sees any one armed or in army uniform, 
Musoke said.