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...SOUTH AMERICA Among the 300 tongues of Lowland Amazonia are Oro Win (three speakers) and Piraha (300), which has a sound like kids imitating motors and has the fewest consonants (eight) and vowels (three) discovered in a language...
...Estimated total population of eastern lowland gorillas in 1996, with nearly two-thirds living in Congo's Kahuzi-Biega National Park...
Bonner might also have examined what happens to a forest when the elephants are gone: how some trees disappear while others close in, pinching off the network of trails used by other large mammals and reducing the amount of herbaceous vegetation growing on the ground that provides sustenance for lowland gorillas and other creatures. For millions of years, elephants have opened African forests, fostering conditions beneficial to other large mammals. Bonner, who tends to view elephants solely as a resource for humans to use, never raises the question of whether Africa's ecosystems can survive without this animal that once...
...exaggerating. I had spent fruitless days trying to get glimpses of chimps and gorillas in forests just to the north of the Ndoki, and it was hard for me to imagine that Africa might still contain forests so remote that the animals had never learned to fear mankind. Western lowland gorillas, hunted for centuries, are among the shyest, least-known animals on earth, and scientists in Gabon and the Central African Republic have invested years trying to gain trust so they could study the animals at close quarters...
...together by wartime communist resistance leader Josip Broz Tito. Ancient enemies, Croatians and Serbs had dangerous scores to settle. One-eighth of Croatia's 4.75 million people are Serbs, and super-Serb Milosevic offered them a cause. Serbian guerrillas have seized perhaps one-third of Croatia -- mostly in the lowland east neighboring Serbia and in the boomerang-shaped republic's coastal south. The heavily Serb-officered federal military has aided and probably armed them right along, but it avoided large-scale attacks until last week...