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CROSS RIVER GORILLA
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| HOME
Nigeria, Cameroon |
| POPULATION
150 to 200 |
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Found in the forested hills along the border between the
two countries, it was recognized as a subspecies distinct from
other West African gorillas only last year
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| PHOTO:
KELLY MCFARLAND |
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DRILL
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| HOME
West Africa |
| POPULATION
unknown |
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Hunted for its meat, it is considered the top
primate-conservation priority in the region
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| PHOTO:
KEVIN SCHAFER/CORBIS |
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SCLATER'S GUENON
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| HOME
Nigeria |
| POPULATION
2,000 to 3,000 |
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Hurt by hunting, farming, logging, firewood collecting and
oil-industry operations, it is protected only in two villages,
where it is considered sacred
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| PHOTO:
NOEL ROWE |
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WHITE-NAPED MANGABEY
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| HOME
Ghana, Ivory Coast |
| POPULATION
2,000 to 3,000 |
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So common in the 1950s that it was considered a crop pest, it
is found in only a fraction of the forests it once roamed
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| PHOTO:
RUSSELL A. MITTERMEIER |
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MISS WALDRON'S RED COLOBUS
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| HOME
Ghana, Ivory Coast |
| POPULATION
unknown |
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If an African expedition turns up no evidence of this colobus,
it may have been the only primate to become extinct in the 20th
century
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| ILLUSTRATION: PZS |
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