These gorillas — whose scientific name is the wonderful gorilla gorilla gorilla — live in the dense and remote rainforests of central and western equatorial Africa, where they’re hard to study and count. But that visitor experience is still fundamentally the same.”Flowers lay around a bronze statue of a gorilla outside the Cincinnati Zoo’s Gorilla World exhibit. That made the supply of many zoo animals — which until that time were often imported from Africa — more tenuous. It’s impossible to know how many baby gorillas Harambe might have sired. According to publicly available information and experts, though, zoos promote wildlife conservation in a few ways.

Source: Washington Post June 02, 2016 11:09 UTC