Gorilla in 2018: Koko obituaries
[448] [read-gorilla-16-48] In 2018, the field log for Gorilla is headed “Koko obituaries.” The figure kept beside that heading is 1972. It is a count or a date from the work, not a rank of the species’ worth. A zoo birthday card does not replace the log. A redd, eyrie, den, anemone or ice lair -- often a single-point risk (Izumi, Natron, Gir).
The atlas type is the western gorilla -- a knuckle-walking ape whose Fossey-era mountain cousins and Koko lab fame split one public name. The taxonomy wiki is Western gorilla. Mountain gorillas are G. beringei, fewer, more filmed, and less CR. The atlas follows the listed type, not the movie.
Karisoke watched mountain gorillas in Rwanda. The methods and the murder belong to that species; western gorillas have Mbeli Bai and different threats (Ebola, bushmeat). the open point is Koko and language? Francine Patterson project treated signs as words. Linguists remain split. The atlas files Koko as culture and a research programme, not as proof that wild western gorillas recite English.
Why the lowest resilience in the 24? CR western gorillas plus Ebola, logging and hunt. Mountain gorilla rebound is real and is a different species card. A forest clearing in Nouabale-Ndoki where western gorillas come for minerals -- a platform study that rarely makes a biopic. Did Gorillas in the Mist help the type?
Keep 2018, “Koko obituaries,” and 1972 together or the note on Gorilla stops being that year’s record.2018
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 2018
- Figure to keep
- 1972
- Species
- Gorilla
- Line in the log
- Koko obituaries
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