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Touched by a Wild Mountain Gorilla (small version) (par aleutiandream)
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Posing as black market gorilla buyers, the rangers recovered the infant male unharmed inside a backpack and arrested three poachers, who were seeking to sell the gorilla—now named Shamavu after his rescuer-for as much as U.S. $40,000, according to park authorities.
Shamavu is the fourth baby gorilla Virunga rangers have recovered from poachers in 2011—the highest number on record in a single year, suggesting that baby-gorilla trafficking may be on the rise in the region.
(via Pictures: Baby Gorilla Rescued in Armed Sting Operation)
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A remarkable achievement in late Victorian publishing, The Living Animals of the World was once the most thorough popular guide to global wildlife: a laivishly illustrated periodical that brought the world to the reading public at the rate of one dime for every 40 pages — and a half-dozen or so species. Today, it stands as a vital reminder of a time when the documentation of animals in their native habitat was mostly left to the men who had come to kill them. (via ‘These animals make a peculiarly plaintive cry when molested in any way’: 1901’s amazing, disturbing Living Animals of the World - Kansas City News - Plog)
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~ Local News | Area 51 vets break silence: Sorry, but no space aliens or UFOs | Seattle Times NewspaperAfter nearly five decades, guys like James Noce finally get to tell their stories about Area 51. The one that gets brought up when people talk about secret Air Force projects, crashed UFOs, alien bodies and, of course, conspiracies.
Noce and Barnes say they never saw anything connected to UFOs. Barnes believes the Air Force and the “Agency” didn’t mind the stories about alien spacecraft. They helped cover up the secret planes that were being tested.
On one occasion, he remembers, when the first jets were being tested at what Muroc Army Air Field, later renamed Edwards Air Force Base, a test pilot put on a gorilla mask and flew upside down beside a private pilot. “Well, when this guy went back, telling reporters, ‘I saw a plane that didn’t have a propeller and being flown by a monkey,’ well, they laughed at this guy — and it got where the guys would see [test pilots] and they didn’t dare report it because everybody’d laugh at them,” says Barnes.
