AR-News: (US NY) Call of the Dwindling Wild Returns Zoo Bongos to Home

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By MARC LACEY

Published: February 10, 2004


ANYUKI, Kenya — The bongo is not an animal known for going in circles. It 
surges straight ahead through the thickest of forests, with its reddish hue and 
striking white stripes confusing predators.
But a herd of 18 bongos now living at the base of Mount Kenya, Africa's 
second highest peak, has just completed the most circuitous of journeys, one that 
has taken them back to their ancestral home.
>From 1966 to 1975, several dozen bongos were shipped from the wilds of Kenya 
to the staid confines of various American zoos. They thrived in captivity, 
breeding with abandon. Eventually, their American population exceeded 400.




full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/10/science/10BONG.html?ex=1076994000&en=c6a16e3
b2237be8c&ei=5062 


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