Written by Pittsburgh and Boston are making a trade. But instead of negotiating with athletes, they’re swapping gorillas. The Pittsburgh Zoo announced on Thursday that it’s saying goodbye to Frankie, a 7-year-old male western lowland gorilla who was born to mom Moka in 2018, and welcoming 33-year-old silverback Little Joe from Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo. The Pittsburgh Zoo says the move is part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ gorilla species survival plan, which ensures that critically endangered gorillas in human care maintain a healthy and genetically diverse population.
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