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http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/05/congo.gorillas/index.html?eref=onion

 

"An estimated 125,000 Western lowland gorillas are living in a swamp in equatorial Africa, researchers reported Tuesday, double the number of the endangered primates thought to survive worldwide."

 

Wow, what an odd story. We didn't know about two-thirds of the gorilla population?

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What the media ISN'T telling you is that they're poised to invade East Africa.
Ha ha, East Africa. Do you know what East Africa is? It's a sitting

duck. A road apple, Brian. East Africa is weak. It's feeble. I think it's

time to put the hurt on East Africa.

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/05/congo.gorillas/index.html?eref=onion

 

"An estimated 125,000 Western lowland gorillas are living in a swamp in equatorial Africa, researchers reported Tuesday, double the number of the endangered primates thought to survive worldwide."

 

Wow, what an odd story. We didn't know about two-thirds of the gorilla population?

I read a different article on the same thing. it said that in 1980 they estimated 100,000 gorillas, but the new count suggested 125,000, which says that the conservation efforts in the Congo are working. Also that this remote swamp is just one area where they had counted, not that they all lived there.

 

of course, you found that on CNN, which says everything. i can only imagine what the newsroom is like.

"well, we loop an hour of news on TV, and we've got our usual 50 minutes devoted to celebrity gossip. How do we fill the rest?"

"boss, i've got a gorilla story i'm working on. I just have to check the facts yet."

"that's ratings gold! nevermind the facts, we have TV time to fill. Get me video of baby gorillas doing something cute!"

 

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They find hundreds of insects and fish species each year they never knew about. The sum of everything we know is a fraction of a fraction.

 

One more reason to be a skeptic on most everything.

 

Or it could just have something to do with the fact that there are tens of millions of insect species versus only about 5,400 species of mammal. It shouldn't come as any real surprise that it's easier to discover new species of an organism that's more plentiful and diverse. You can call it skepticism, but I call it mathematical probability.
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