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  • From: Josh Greenman <joshg1973 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Monkeywire <monkeywire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [monkeywire] San Diego Zoo Officials Go Ape Over Gorilla Discovery
  • Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 11:01:08 -0700 (PDT)

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/education/2220326/detail.html

San Diego Zoo Officials Go Ape Over Gorilla Discovery

Animals May Be Part Of Unknown Subspecies

POSTED: 2:58 p.m. PDT May 21, 2003

SAN DIEGO -- Researchers with the San Diego Zoo have discovered a population
of gorillas
in a remote forest of Cameroon where no gorillas were thought to live and
which may be
part of a previously unknown subspecies.

Researchers Bethan J. Morgan and Chris Wild found the troop during a wildlife
survey that
is part of the Zoological Society of San Diego's effort to establish a
national park and
ecological reserves in Bakossiland, a mountain region of Cameroon.

Morgan, who is with the society's Center for Reproduction of Endangered
Species, and
Wild, head of the center's Bakossiland field station, found the apes while
searching for
drills, which are the world's largest monkeys.


The team briefly sighted seven gorillas in the Ebo forest, the San Diego
Union-Tribune
reported Wednesday.

Alan Dixson, director of conservation and science at the Zoological Society,
said
researchers will conduct genetic testing of hairs recovered from the
gorillas' nests to
determine whether they are part of a gorilla subspecies.

The discovery will be formally announced to the scientific community in a
paper to be
published in the International Journal of Primatology, Dixson said.



  • [monkeywire] San Diego Zoo Officials Go Ape Over Gorilla Discovery, Josh Greenman, 05/22/2003

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