News, November 2003

Barcelona mourns passing of 'Copito de Nieve', the world's only albino gorrilla

26 November. After a painful illness, Copito de Nieve (Snowflake) was put to sleep yesterday. He was the world's only albino gorrilla, found in the forests of Rio Muni (Equatorial Guinea) in 1966, aged then about two or three and since then Barcelona zoo's main attraction.