Circus owner Raul Gasca is saddened by the death of Pancho, one of the two chimpanzees who were shot dead by the police after escaping a zoo in the Colombian city of Pereira. Gasca worked with Pancho at his circus, before donating him to a zoo. “Panchito was like a person. No animal can match the intelligence of a chimpanzee, none,” he says. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES