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What happened to Tonka? Missouri chimp at center of court battle is missing — or dead

St. Louis on the Air

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Did Judge Perry Order Fortanka to Be Transferred?

In july of this year, the court specifically ordered that all seven of the chimpanzees there, including ca, be transferred. When she was ordered to hand them all over, we learned that tanka supposedly died. A man who said he was given tonka's body and burned tonka on a burned pit on his property at about a hundred 65 to 170 degrees is not a hot enough to burn a body. But notwithstanding his subsequent declaration, really the main problem here, and more so than the timing, is that what they have described happened is physically possible. One cannot burn a body on a burnedpit or in a commercial crematorium, and turn that body to ash. That's not

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