How catching malaria gave me a new perspective on saving gorillas
- Written by Marissa Parrott, Reproductive Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science, Zoos Victoria, and Honorary Research Associate, BioSciences, University of Melbourne
Mountain and lowland gorillas are vulnerable to malaria.Zoos Victoria
Conservationists are in a desperate fight to save the last of the world’s gorillas. Numbers of some subspecies are so low that organisations are literally saving the species one gorilla at a time.
A perhaps unlikely foe in this battle is human-borne disease, including...
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