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Kidnapped Gorillas Go Home

Five years later, the 'Taiping Four' make the trip back to Cameroon

By Michael O'Connor, Newser User

Posted Dec 1, 2007 9:29 AM CST

(Newser) – For four rare gorillas who were illegally smuggled from their home in Cameroon five years ago, the long journey has finally come to an end, the BBC reports. The one male and three female Western Lowland gorillas are returning to the Limbe Wildlife Sanctuary in... Read full story »

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