More than 100,000 rare gorillas found in Congo

[PipFunatUT]

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[THEU]

great news!!!! also makes me wonder what else is out there that we don't know about.

 

[notreally]

right! if we have somehow missed 100,000 gorillas..... who knows what else is out there. that is enough gorillas to populate sherman, tx.

 

[7 Iron]

That would be excellent to go gorilla hunting in there. It would be like shooting sitting gorillas! I would love to have 6 or 7 life size gorillas mounted throughout our home.

 

[Eating Club]

I read Congo as Chicago. How Soonerish of me.

 

[evolujohn]

That would be excellent golfing around there... It would be like hitting peaches in the lake (that's a peach hun) I would love to take a 7-iron and knock the head off a troll...

 

[austintex]

I don't know what the big deal is. I've known about this for years ...

 

[JohnnyM]

It really is amazing to think that we just didn't know. Kind of like that tribe in Brazil (?) that had no contact with the outside world.

 

[Napoleon]

I love Gorillas...








They're delicious!

 

[MaduroUTMB]

They were better off before people knew that they existed.

 

[Steel Shank]

Google satellite is overrated.

 

[ADMIRALSTOCKDALE]

7-iron,
i'm with you. that might be the best gorilla hunting locale in the world and far more entertaining than blowing up the barton creek salamander with jumping jacks.

 

[GT WT]

It's amazing what some of you people find humorous.

 

[Steel Shank]

I agree. There are some really sick, vile, lecherous, disgusting, unethical, moral foresaken people here. I keep coming back, and here they are. Every time. Sometimes I wonder.

 

[CHIEFLAZYBOY]

I like my gorilla grilled medium rare, with fava beans, and a nice Chianti.

Chief

 

[accuratehorn]

I found almost that many 90 miles east of here the night after last Thanksgiving.

 

[Left Hand Black]

I hear a gorilla chest makes a damn fine vest.

 

[William Cannon]

and this is precisely why Osama is still at large!

 

[MP5]

Anyone else think many of these enviro whackos make up this "endangered" BS from their Butt?

 

[I_Live_In_OK]

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[SubliminalHorn]

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[TyWebb]

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[TexonLongIsland]

if there are more than 100,000 of the buggers, are they really still "rare"?

 

[hooklahoma]

kinda reminds me of the whole spotted owl hoax the envirolobby perperated in the public in the early 90's They claimed that they were all
but extinct and could only live in "old Growth" forrest, so we needed to stop all logging in the northwest to preserve these delicate creatures.

It didnt take much investigative reporting by folks that dindnt buy into their agenda to find spotted owls living in new growth forrest, commercial buildings, K-mart signs etc , etc. Despite their efforts logging continued and the spotted owl is off the endangered list.

 

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[GT WT]

Hooklahoma, do you have references for any of this?

The spotted owl is still declining by >3% per year and is still listed as threatened.

 

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[Napoleon]

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[Statalyzer]

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[GT WT]

You're right Statalizer, logging and habitat degradation are not the only chballenges facing the northern spotteded owl. An invasive species, the northern barred owl, is moving into spotted owl habitat. Once there they compete with the native species and, even more disturbing, hybridize with the spotted owls. It should be born in mind that the invasion by the barred owls may itself be due to human activities.

In the ornithological journal The Auk Shawna Dark and her colleagues suggest:

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