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The Peoria Zoo's playful patriarch nearly doubled his expected life span, leaving a legacy as a beloved member of the menagerie.

The Peoria Zoo is mourning the loss of Butch, a black-handed spider monkey and the oldest known member of his species, who was born in 1973 and lived at the zoo since 1981.