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  Nadine Sunderland

  

  Meet the conservationist saving gorillas in Uganda’s ‘impenetrable forest’

  CNN

  CNN — It’s been 30 years, but Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka still remembers the first time she ever saw a mountain gorilla. It was the summer of 1994. Deep in the jungle of Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, the then-24-year-old student was hundreds of miles from her home in the country’s …

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  Nadine Sunderland

  

  Didi Chadran

  Oct 16, 2024

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  Veuer

  Jul 4, 2022
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  Nadine Sunderland

  

  How animals choose their leaders, from brute force to democracy

  National Geographic - Brian Handwerk

  Americans vote for their leaders at the ballot box—but here's how animals from elephants to bees keep their societies in line. From bees to dolphins to elephants, many wild animals live in cooperative groups ruled by a single leader. And, as is the case in human societies, these rulers take …

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  Nadine Sunderland

  

  Hundreds of elephants found dead in Botswana

  BBC News

  Mystery surrounds the "completely unprecedented" deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana over the last two months. Dr Niall McCann said colleagues in the southern African country had spotted more than 350 elephant carcasses in the Okavango Delta since the start of May. No one knows why the …

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  Nadine Sunderland

  

  Chimps Know Death When They See It

  discovermagazine.com - Bridget Alex

  After Rosie’s mother died, she accompanied the lifeless body throughout the night, in apparent mourning. When Noel lost her adopted son, she picked …