Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project
My sister-in-law works for the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project. The past few days I've been helping her out as they've been swamped with paperwork. There had been a massacre of mountain gorillas last June (see Newsweek article) which put a spotlight on the plight of these animals. Good Morning America aired a show about MGVP on August 7, 2007. Will have to see if it can be posted to YouTube. Conservation.org has a very nice video about the Mountain Gorillas and one of the vets in Africa, Dr. Lucy, has a blog. MGVP has been caring for ten orphaned gorillas.
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Disturbing. Why do they think this is happening?
I used to be a zoo volunteer at the national zoo in Washington DC. We stayed overnight a few times on "gorilla watch" when the female gorilla seemed about to give birth. She didn't. Not because we were watching. She wasn't pregnant after all.
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