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Captive animals have acted violently before. In 2006 an orca (a.k.a. killer whale) at SeaWorld in San Diego attacked its trainer, who survived. That summer an elephant killed its handler at the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. In 2004 a gorilla at the Dallas Zoo went on a rampage, injuring four people. A white tiger critically hurt illusionist Roy Horn, half of the performing duo Siegfried & Roy, at the Mirage Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas in 2003. More recently, in February 2007, a jaguar at the Denver Zoo killed a keeper. Despite these, among other dramatic attacks, some people wonder...
...will need millions if he hopes to keep going. So he is devoting precious days to raising cash outside Iowa, making it harder to win converts on the prairie. It is the old flaw in the Iowa breakout strategy: How can anyone survive the abrupt transformation from guerrilla to gorilla? One day you're the Lone Ranger; the next, you're in the middle of the Battle of the Bulge. Unless you can morph into Patton and conjure up the Third Army double-quick, you're fixing to die in the snow. Indeed, no Republican in modern politics has ever...
...Travelers can take advantage of lock-in prices to save on travel outside Europe, too. Kenyan luxury-safari group Governors' Camp, www.governorscamp.com, released their dollar rates back in March for visits through the end of 2008, including stays at their new gorilla-spotting and trekking lodge in Rwanda. So has Johannesburg-based CC Africa, www.ccafrica.com. Its 2008 itineraries - featuring golfing and gourmet safaris throughout southern Africa along with scintillating new journeys in India - were priced back in August...
Primates are being threatened everywhere in the world, but Asia takes the lead this year with 11 endangered species, including the Sumatran orangutan, Siau Island tarsier and Hainan black-crested gibbon. Africa's seven endangered primates include the Cross River gorilla and Miss Waldron's red colobus, which scientists have not spotted since 1993 and fear may already be extinct. Madagascar follows with four endangered species, while South America has three. From Colombia to Southern China, primates are not faring well, and primatologists say their precarious existence is a problem for all of us. Even if we have never...
...number of analysts believe Nkunda's rebellion has a fast-approaching expiration date because he has no support from the West and from neighboring countries. And without that, the rebels will soon lose their advantage. That may be of limited consolation to gorilla conservationists, however. For example, a siege aimed at starving out the rebels may compel them to target wildlife and the gorillas - as food. "In any normal situation, it's hard to protect the gorillas," Newport says, citing threats from armed militias, poachers and people chopping trees down for charcoal and space to grow crops. "They're kind...