Hope in the Heart of Darkness: huge population of chimpanzees discovered in the DRC
May 20, 2014, news.mongabay.com | “After weeks of slogging through thigh deep mud on hired motorbikes, passing dozens of bushmeat vendors offering everything from okapi skins to monkey meat to chained chimpanzee orphans, Dr. Thurston C. Hicks and his colleagues had finally arrived at their goal: they were sitting in a clearing in the legendary Gangu Forest, one of the most remote and pristine stretches of wilderness remaining in Africa.”
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Huge population of Chimpanzees discovered in the Congonews.mongabay.comA recent study describes a new population of chimpanzees, which forms a continuous cultural group inhabiting an area of at least 50,000 square kilometers (19,000 square miles). The…”
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