Report: 125,000 gorillas found in African zone

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[marthemaria]

Wildlife researchers said Tuesday that they've discovered 125,000 western lowland gorillas deep in the forests of the Republic of Congo, calling it a major increase in the animal's estimated population.

The Wildlife Conservation Society, based at New York's Bronx Zoo, and the Republic of Congo said their census counted the newly discovered gorillas in two areas of the northern part of the country covering 18,000 square miles. Previous estimates, dating to the 1980s, put the number of western lowland gorillas at less than 100,000.

[marthemaria]

wow kind of facinating that they found so many gorillas.Good news : )

[wideawake]

Oh, wait. Maybe they weren’t as endangered as we thought. It must have been all the mist.

[WayneS]

“This is a very significant discovery because of the terrible decline in population of these magnificent creatures to Ebola and bush meat,” said Emma Stokes...

That sentence doesn’t make any sense.

[Kimmers]

This really is good news....I just hope they are left alone......

Maybe if they go deeper into the jungle they can find 125,000 polar bears......

[Artemis Webb]

It it good news. Thanks for posting this.

[txhurl]

That’s a lot.

[ari-freedom]

good. now people can eat more of them and not worry so much.

[Diggler]

This sudden gorilla population explosion is undoubtedly because of global warming.

[Clemenza]

At least one gorilla is to be found in Albany, and not at the local zoo either:

[E. Pluribus Unum]

How cool.

Africa must be some wild place, with something like this undiscovered.

May it stay that way.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Is it just me, or is Spawn of Mario starting to look a little like Vince McMahon ?

[Rick.Donaldson]

Along with 125,000 freakin’ leapin’ mouse critters that are also on that stupid “endangered list”.

(Are Conservatives listed there yet?)

[Wil H]

Hmm, all those previously unaccounted for Gorillas means a lot of previously unaccounted for methane and CO2...

..AHH NOW we’ve found the cause of Global Warming!

[shineon]

They found me.

[ari-freedom]

[Smedley]

I wonder if they’re tasty?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I remember the first time I saw King Kong, on TV on a rainy Sunday afternoon when I was about eleven.

That was my favorite movie for years, followed closely by Mighty Joe Young (the one with Ben Johnson, not Bill Paxton).

[mass55th]

"Comment #2 Removed by Moderator"

I'm assuming someone made a comment about "he who must not be named, or photo used in conjunction with any primate."

I take it though that using Andrew Cuomo and the term "gorilla" is okay with the moderators?

By the way, I'm thinking that Cuomo spends most of his time in Manhattan with the rest of the primates.

[theBuckwheat]

Great news, but also should be a lesson the next time some enviro group plays the “endangered species” card. We are discovering new species and increased populations of other species at a far faster rate than we find hard evidence of dangerous declines in a species.