Five meerkats died at the Philadelphia Zoo this month after staff administered a dye routinely used at the zoo for three decades.
Zoo workers administered the dye to the meerkats on June 1 in an apparently routine procedure, but 30 minutes later, one was dead.
Within 36 hours, three other meerkats whose stomachs were immediately pumped and were kept under observation had died, with the fifth dying a week later. According to zoo officials, Nyanzol-D, a topical agricultural dye, has been used routinely to differentiateThe meerkats – Nkosi, Lula, Nya, Kgala, and Ari – had been at the zoo for 10 years and were fun-loving creatures kept in the Small Mammal House which contained the ‘360 Meerkat Maze’ exhibit.
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