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A chimpanzee has died at the Dallas Zoo from a heart-related illness, officials say. The 31-year-old chimpanzee, Kirk, stopped breathing Wednesday, just before caretakers’ rounds at the end of the day. The caretakers began to administer life-saving measures, but he already had died. The zoo said the chimpanzee hadn’t shown signs of illness in the weeks before he died, but …

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