KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Zoo announced Tuesday that they recently lost both a gorilla and a giraffe to illness.
Dixie the giraffe unexpectedly died on July 11 in the outdoor habitat, according to the zoo.
Tests are being done to see what caused her death, but keepers suspect it stemmed from rumenitis that she was being treated for.
Dixie had lived at the zoo every since her birth in 2018.
Radi the gorilla and the patriarch of the zoo's gorilla troop died on July 13.
According to the zoo, the 37-year-old gorilla had been in the zoo since the Africa section opened in 1995.
Radi had been diagnosed with Crohn's disease and had been losing weight. Declining health caused the zoo to humanely euthanize the gorilla Monday.
The KC Zoo said both animals will be greatly missed.
