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FILE – In this Dec. 22, 2016, file photo, Colo, the world's first gorilla born in a zoo, opens a present in her enclosure during her 60th birthday party at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Columbus, Ohio. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium said Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, that Colo, the oldest known gorilla in the U.S., died in her sleep less than a month after her 60th birthday. (AP Photo/Ty Wright, File)

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FILE – In this Dec. 22, 2016, file photo, Colo, the world's first gorilla born in a zoo, sits inside her enclosure during her 60th birthday party at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Columbus, Ohio. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium said Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, that Colo, the oldest known gorilla in the U.S., died in her sleep less than a month after her 60th birthday. (AP Photo/Ty Wright, File)

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FILE - In this Dec.2012, file photo, provided by the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Colo, a lowland gorilla, sits in her enclosure at the zoo in Powell, Ohio. The longest-living gorilla on record has another great-grandbaby. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium says a baby western lowland gorilla named JJ was born there Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016. (Grahm S. Jones/Columbus Zoo and Aquarium via AP, File)

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** FILE ** This photo provided by the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium shows one of three leopards that were captured by authorities, a day after their owner released dozens of wild animals and then killed himself near Zanesville, Ohio. (AP Photo/Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Grahm S. Jones)