Word: gorillas
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...grim when you can perform improv for audiences in Palm Beach, prance around on stage like a gorilla or translate the phrase "I can eat glass, it doesn't hurt me" into foreign languages? (Don't ask. See their Web site...
...recent years, the world has become a brutally hard place to be a gorilla. Although there are still more than 130,000 gorillas in the Congo basin, they are being killed and crowded out at an alarming rate. By one estimate, 800 gorillas in Cameroon ended up as "bush meat" last year...
While a few great apes live in luxury in the new Congo Gorilla Forest in the Bronx, many of their wild relatives are being killed or crowded out of their homelands in Africa. The chief threats to their survival are threefold...
HUNTING So-called bush meat, which includes gorilla flesh, has long been an important part of local diets. But as the human population grows and new roads make it easier to ship gorilla meat to the cities, the situation is likely to get worse before it gets better. There are laws against killing gorillas for any reason, but enforcement is spotty...
...civil wars that have killed or dislocated millions of Central Africans in the past decade have also made gorillas more vulnerable to depredations. "Even now," says Amy Vedder of the Wildlife Conservation Society, "significant portions of gorilla habitat are unreachable by conservation forces because of the continued fighting. Until that stops, we won't even know what we've lost...