Into the spotlight of study come two mountain gorillas, whose existence is threatened by the encroachment of man. Only scattered groups remain to roam the misty forests of central Africa.
Into the spotlight of study come two mountain gorillas, whose existence is threatened by the encroachment of man. Only scattered groups remain to roam the misty forests of central Africa.
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Making Friends With Mountain Gorillas
In remote African highlands, a daring American woman studies some of man’s closest nonhuman relatives in their age-old environment.
This story appears in the January 1970 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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