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Africa’s Barbets

10,000 Birds

This image is from Bwindi Impenetrable Gorilla National Park, Uganda. He discovered numerous new species for science including this barbet and was the first person to confirm the existence of both Gorillas and Pygmies. Gray-throated Barbet is one of the plainer members of the African Barbet family.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Chimpanzees and elephants grieve the loss of family and friends, and gorillas hold wakes for the dead. Donna Fernandes, president of the Buffalo Zoo, witnessed a wake for a female gorilla, Babs, who had died of cancer at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo. He never chased the rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, or deer who regularly visited.

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