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New numbers adding up to rare hope for rarer gorillas

In this photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a baby gorilla shouts from atop its mother's back in the Republic of Congo.

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Idonno

Georgetown, TX

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#2
Aug 6, 2008
 
standby it's header your way !
kurdistan

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#3
Aug 6, 2008
 
great news,we hope the news will be confirmed soon...
u gotta be kidding

Schaumburg, IL

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#4
Aug 6, 2008
 
we don't know what the heck we're talking about, let's just throw some numbers out.
Robb

Beachwood, OH

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#5
Aug 6, 2008
 
But when will they find Grape Ape? When?
baldy

Columbus, OH

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#6
Aug 6, 2008
 
So let's see if I understand this:

Some of the smartest people in the world lost 150,000 gorillas for 20 years.

You sure they're not just people waiting for the traffic to clear at O'Hare?
hungry doggy

Vernon Hills, IL

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Aug 6, 2008
 
You know, the AIDS/HIV virus originated in central African wild chimpanzees. After the AIDS virus made the jump from wild chimpanzees to humans, it killed millions of people in a worldwide epidemic that is still raging, and that so far has cost trillions of dollars in treatment efforts, research efforts, etc. Its more than likely that the great apes harbor other deadly viruses that might one day make the jump to humans.

If humans were a totally rational species, the most rational thing we could do would be to keep a small population of each species of great ape in isolated capitivity for future research purposes, and exterminate all the wild populations of all the great ape.

Before you tell me I'm crazy, let me reassure you I'm not serious. It's just something to think about the next time some environmental whack job starts rapsidizing about wild gorillas.
ankashorty

Phoenix, AZ

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Aug 6, 2008
 
hungry doggy wrote:
You know, the AIDS/HIV virus originated in central African wild chimpanzees. After the AIDS virus made the jump from wild chimpanzees to humans, it killed millions of people in a worldwide epidemic that is still raging, and that so far has cost trillions of dollars in treatment efforts, research efforts, etc. Its more than likely that the great apes harbor other deadly viruses that might one day make the jump to humans.
If humans were a totally rational species, the most rational thing we could do would be to keep a small population of each species of great ape in isolated capitivity for future research purposes, and exterminate all the wild populations of all the great ape.
Before you tell me I'm crazy, let me reassure you I'm not serious. It's just something to think about the next time some environmental whack job starts rapsidizing about wild gorillas.
Wait a minute there buddy.....I thought I read in the Daily Defender that White scientists created the aids virus and spread it to the black man. Are you saying this is not true ????

Anyhow , I'm on the wrong blog, I thought this one had something to do with R. KELLY..........

Misanthrope "Over and Out"
jojo

United States

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#10
Aug 6, 2008
 
hungry doggy, What are you talking about, you must have the mentality of a lowland ape, maybe we should put you in a cage and i would say study you but it sounds like there isnt anything upstairs to study.
Jim Dosh

Kissimmee, FL

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#11
Aug 7, 2008
 
Dudethat is so cool.

JT
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the Man

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#12
Aug 7, 2008
 
who cares about gorillas?
man was here to subdue the earth. we are master!
i am a Japanese business man who also work part time in McDonalds because of high price in Japan!
also so many foreigners take my jobs here in Tokyo.
I don't care about gorillas. they are just animals, not people.
the Man

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#13
Aug 7, 2008
 
i apologize.. i was just kidding. pls ignore my childish and stupid comments. I love animals.
:)
Stefanie

Edinburgh, UK

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#14
Aug 22, 2008
 
hi
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