Word: gambia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to the no-shows and the never-stop was one guest who was almost a nogo: Sir Dawda K. Jawara, President of Gambia, who lingered a day in England after being regretfully informed by the Foreign Office that he had been deposed in a coup - but who at week's end returned to Africa to try to unseat the rebels...
Besides restocking animals for display, some zoos hope such breeding experiments can provide the basis for new populations in protected habitats. The London Zoo has already helped put zoo-bred chimpanzees into the forests of Gambia, where they seem to be surviving. Several of the Bronx Zoo's condors now dive and wheel over the mountains of Peru. One of the most prestigious breeding programs has been established on the island of Jersey in the English Channel, where a British group under the honorary directorship of Biologist-Author Gerald Durrell has been breeding everything from rare primates (lemurs...