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Gorillas of Eastern Nigeria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2009

E. W. March
E. W. March
Affiliation:
Chief Conservator of Forests
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A former chief of the Nigeria Forest Service once told me that a boyhood fascination for R. M. Ballantyne's book The Gorilla Hunters was one important deciding factor in his choice of tropical forestry as a career. I cannot claim any such romantic incentive in the choice of a career but nonetheless when I found myself in charge of a territory containing the habitat of one of the few remaining gorilla colonies in the Commonwealth, I was more than interested at the prospect of visiting the area and possibly observing these animals in their haunts.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , April 1957 , pp. 30 - 34
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1957