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  • From: Marimike6@cs.com
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  • Subject: [permaculture] No more bonobos
  • Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:52:50 EST

(from the New Scientist)

End of the road for wild bonobos


11 December 2004
Duncan Graham-Rowe
Magazine issue 2477

The pygmy chimpanzees are so rare they cannot be found - our closest
relatives are being wiped out JUST 75 years after being discovered, our
closest
living relative is on the verge of extinction. A comprehensive survey of the
bonobo, or pygmy chimp, indicates that it may have been hunted so intensively
that
it cannot survive.

Bonobos live only in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in central
Africa. Until now, the best guess was that between 10,000 and 50,000
individuals
inhabited the country's forests. But the most thorough survey of the species
ever undertaken has failed to spot a single ape. It recorded the
vocalisations
of just one individual and found evidence of the ape's presence, such as
nests and dung, in just nine of 44 areas studied, and at much lower densities
than
expected.

***

They were nice while they lasted.





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