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Gorilla Census

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

A. H. Harcourt  and
A. F. G. Groom
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The authors spent three months in the Virunga volcanoes, in Rwanda, making a census of mountain gorilla groups as an aid to Dian Fossey’s long-term studies of this highly endangered primate. The FPS assisted this census with a grant from the Oryx 100% Fund.

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Research Article
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Oryx , Volume 11 , Issue 5 , May 1972 , pp. 355 - 363
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1972

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