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Sizing Up Congo’s Silverbacks

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May 01, 2012
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but even for gorillas, some traits stand out. A new study conducted in the rainforests of the Republic or Congo shows that female western lowland gorillas seek out bigger mates to father their offspring. Conservationists with WCS and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology spent 12 years studying gorilla mating choices in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park. Their findings illuminate an important factor in the evolution of great...

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Tags: Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, gorillas, Conservation science


WCS Releases First-Ever Landscape-Wide Study of Elephants and Great Apes

Science publication

May 06, 2010
Study looked at protected areas and logging concessions in Republic of Congo Results show importance of parks and anti-poaching efforts   The Wildlife Conservation Society announced the results of the first-ever evaluation of a large, “landscape-wide” conservation approach to protect globally important populations of elephants and great apes. The study looked at wildlife populations in northern Republic of Congo over a mosaic of land-use types, including a national par...

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Tags: gorillas, Forest elephants, Conservation science


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