December 12, 2006
Monkeys Get Ebola (video)
When zoologists in the Lossi region of central Africa noticed that some of the gorillas they were studying were becoming sick and dying, they could not have known what was to come. Now gorillas face the possibility of going extinct.
Video made by Congolese filmmakers, produced by International Conservation and Education fund, distributed as part of TERRA: The Nature of Our World video podcast.
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sad
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*stubs out cig but in gorilla hand ashtray* *does not smoke
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The only possible upside I could think of was that maybe the understanding that gorilla meat is disease-ridden will stop people eating them, and a rump surviving resistant population might make a comeback, but that's doubtless wishful thinking.
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The gorillas have been on a fast track to extinction for the last 25 years. Ebola is just finishing up the job with its usual terrifying efficiency, but humans bear most of the blame.
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This is why we monkeys must find and capture 2 gorillas, build them an enclosure, and breed them until the population is rebuilt.
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oh no.
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Ebola does not do a primate body good.