Gorilla Discovery Bananza

Roughly 125,000 Western Lowland Gorillas have been discovered in Republic of Congo (Africa). To put this in some perspective, before this discovery it was thought that around 50,000 Western Lowland Gorillas existed world wide. That translates into an increased population estimate of about than 250%, or 175,000 total.

Such a massive find highlights how much left their is to explore on our own planet. If 100,000 plus Gorillas could have hid from us for so long, imagine what else may still be out their waiting to be discovered. Not just small creatures, but massive creatures that the western world may not know about.


CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/05/congo.gorillas/index.html

"An estimated 125,000 Western lowland gorillas are living in a swamp in equatorial Africa, researchers reported Tuesday, double the number of the endangered primates thought to survive worldwide.

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The last census on the species, carried out during the 1980s, estimated that there were only 100,000 of the gorillas left worldwide. Since then, the researchers estimated, the numbers had been cut in half.

WCS survey teams conducted the research in 2006 and 2007, traveling to the remote Lac Tele Community Reserve in northern Republic of Congo, a vast area of swamp forest."