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By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, August 13th, 2010
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Munyinya is the silverback for Hirwa group. He looks over a family of five adult females and their infants. This week’s health check was a pleasure – the family was resting and playing in the bamboo zone, and as usual the kids were playing like crazy all around Muyinya. At one point I could see […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
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Mukunda is the 15-year-old son of Senkwekwe. He is a sliverback who saw his father, mother and five other family members shot and killed in Congo in 2007. At the time he was a blackback gorilla who helped the remaining family to flee the horror of that day. He has been living in Rugendo group, […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
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Each month all Gorilla Doctors gather in Ruhengeri at our regional office for “veterinary rounds.” We also invite Dr. Arthur, the ICCN veterinarian for Virunga National Park in Congo, Dr. Cyprian, our volunteer veterinarian who is helping with our domestic animals cases, and Elisabeth, the Volcanoes Nation Park Veterinary Warden and our dear partner in […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
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There are still many days when I am in the Virungas I can’t quite believe I work here. This was one of those days. As trackers Jerome and Aaron and I walked up the mountain on our way to find Kwitonda group, I was learning new Kinyarwanda words. I had learned the Kinyarwanda word for […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, June 10th, 2010
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Kwita Izina. The annual gorilla naming ceremony in Rwanda. This event started years ago with a small group of trackers, guides, researchers and veterinarians who would gather annually to name the baby gorillas born during the year. It has grown to an international event, attended by tens of thousands of people from Rwanda and the […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
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Blog by: Dr. Eddy KambaleMGVP DRC In-Country Field Veterinarian Ndeze and Ndakasi are the two Mountain Gorilla orphans who were transferred from Goma to Senkwekwe at Rumangabo, DRC about 6 months ago. They have been showing a very good health state and no major health problem needing MGVP Gorillas Doctors interventions! In their lovely home, […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
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Last Sunday afternoon I got a call from Joel at Karisoke Research Center. The 2 week old baby of Imvune in Ugenda group was crying a lot, and may have had some blood on his feet. Trackers were worried. I put my pack in the truck and headed up to Bisote, the place where I […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
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We got a call from trackers that Agahozo, a 5 year old male gorilla in Pablo group, was coughing and staying behind the group. This is the season when we begin to worry about respiratory disease in the gorillas – the end of the rainy season. It has been rainy and cool recently, and Pablo […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
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Blog by: Dr. Eddy KambaleMGVP DRC In-Country Field Veterinarian Mapendo, Amani, Kighoma and Ndjingala, the four orphan Grauer’s gorillas who have been living in Goma since they were confiscated from poachers, have moved to a new home in the forest. These four little gorillas have been under the direct care of Gorilla Doctors of the […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
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Blog by: Dr. Jean Felix KinaniMGVP Rwandan In-Country Field Veterinarian How many gorillas live in the Virunga Massif? This is a question that has not been answered since the last census of the habitat in 2003. The Virunga Volcanoes is one of only two locations where mountain gorillas live. The last census in 2003 resulted […]
