The Boston Globe, June 10th, 1989
STONEHAM - It has all the elements of an '80s love story: Compatibility established by computer dating service. Contact made across a bar. Weeks of hesitation. A tentative embrace. And, finally, a consummated relationship. This story, however, has a twist. The dating service was the Species Survival Program. The bar separated two cages in the Stone Zoo. The initial contact was monitored by veterinarians. And the lovers were Gigi and Vip, two lowland gorillas. Yesterday, three months after the Metropolitan District Commission brought Vip to Stoneham, the 250-pound gorilla fulfilled his primary ...
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