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Scientists Cry with Emotion: They Catch a Bongo From the Mountain, a Strange Species in Danger of Extinction that only 100 Live Specimens Remain in the World
An animal so rare that many forest rangers only know it by fingerprints, excrement or blurred images has just returned to the world focus. Trap chambers installed in the Maasai Mau forest in Kenya have captured the mountain bongo, an antelope in critical danger of extinction that conservationists feared had been lost in that area for more than half a decade. The finding does not mean that the species is saved. But it does change the map of hope.…
An animal so rare that many forest rangers only know it by fingerprints, excrement or blurred images has just returned to the world focus. Trap chambers installed in the Maasai Mau forest in Kenya have captured the mountain bongo, an antelope in critical danger of extinction that conservationists feared had been lost in that area for more than half a decade. The finding does not mean that the species is saved. But it does change the map of hope.…