Gorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers’ Traps—A First
Just days after a poacher’s snare had killed one of their own, two young mountain gorillas worked together Tuesday to find and destroy traps in their Rwandan forest home, according to conservationists on the scene.
“This is absolutely the first time that we’ve seen juveniles doing that … I don’t know of any other reports in the world of juveniles destroying snares,” said Veronica Vecellio, gorilla program coordinator at the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund’s Karisoke Research Center, located in the reserve where the event took place. “We are the largest database and observer of wild gorillas … so I would be very surprised if somebody else has seen that,” Vecellio added. (Also see “Dian Fossey’s Gorillas Exhumed for Investigation.”)<...Read More