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Gorilla — Ebola waves · 179

[716] [roadmap-gorilla-7] Western lowland gorillas are the usual zoo gorilla. Captive groups do not replace Gabon and Congo forests. 179 The bill, teeth, trunk, pouch or talon that field guides name first -- and that trade or conflict usually targets. 2002: log Gorilla under “Ebola waves” with 07. Do not rank the species. Fat, cache, crop or bamboo hours that decide whether a season closes.

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). 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.

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. The 1988 film helped mountain gorilla tourism and the Fossey myth. Western lowland numbers kept falling on a different map.

Keep 2002, “Ebola waves,” and 07 together or the note on Gorilla stops being that year’s record. 2002: log Gorilla under “Ebola waves” with 07. Do not rank the species. 072002

Figures to keep

Year of the note
2002
Figure to keep
07
Species
Gorilla
Line in the log
Ebola waves

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