TITLE

Epitaph for two mountain gorillas

AUTHOR(S)

Eliot, John L.

PUB. DATE

November 1995

SOURCE

National Geographic;Nov95, Vol. 188 Issue 5, p150

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports that the gorilla Rugabo was probably killed by poachers. Speculations by Popol Verhoestraete of the International Conservation Program in Zaire; Number of mountain gorillas in central Africa; Effect of the Rwandan civil war on the population of the species.

ACCESSION #

9510306783

Tags: GORILLA

 

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