Young gorillas learn how to dismantle poacher's traps (so cool!) [View all]

[DuaneBidoux]

I don't know if this will be locked as not being related for "Good Reads" but this is simply toooo cooool! It deserves a broad read and I don't know where to get that on DU other than here:

Just days after a poacher's snare had killed one of their own, two young mountain gorillas worked together Tuesday to find and destroy traps in their Rwandan forest home, according to conservationists on the scene.

"This is absolutely the first time that we've seen juveniles doing that ... I don't know of any other reports in the world of juveniles destroying snares," said Veronica Vecellio, gorilla program coordinator at the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund's Karisoke Research Center, located in the reserve where the event took place.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120719-young-gorillas-juvenile-traps-snares-rwanda-science-fossey/