Bossou Chimpanzees dying from illness

The Chimpanzee colony at Bossou, southeast Guinea has lost over 50% of its’ chimpanzees due to a mysterious epidemic

“There are theories that some chimpanzees have contracted a sort of bronchitis or pneumonia probably transmitted by man, but we are not sure because chimpanzees have funeral rites and take away the bodies after death,” said Marie Claude Gauthier of the Jane Goodall Institute for wildlife research and conservation

Posted on timeDecember 4th, 2006 by userSimon Greenhill



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