A minute's silence, please

The Knoxville Zoo lost one of its most beloved inhabitants on Christmas Day.

BiBi was one of the zoo's four Western lowland gorillas, and its only female.

"She had been feeling poorly for about a week or so, and on Christmas eve, there was swelling of her face and neck," said Lisa New, the zoo's director of animal collections.

Knoxville Zoo gorilla dies : Local News : Knoxville News Sentinel