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By some divine miracle, researchers have discovered 125,000 lowland primates in Africa. That doubles the previous estimate of hilarious gorillas.

Apparently, these cheeky apes have been hiding from the evil bwana hunters.

Well done gorillas! Good to have you back.

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18 Comments

Does this mean we can start hunting them again? Because I'd really like to bag me a silverback!

said Echowood on August 5, 2008 1:07 PM.

How dare you, Echowood. How dare you.

said Johnny Wright on August 5, 2008 1:20 PM.

Hey Rev - you didn't tell us Echo was a Bwana hunter. The movie "Trading Places" comes to mind for some stupid reason (the scene near the end).

said ConservaLiberCrat_08 on August 5, 2008 1:23 PM.

Its Grodd's secret primate army! Someone call the Flash! ANY Flash!

said Your mom's new boyfriend on August 5, 2008 1:35 PM.

Echo may be hiding a secret life from me LiberCrat. I'm looking into this from the Night Cobra Headquarters.

By the power of Grayskull was that Grodd line funny...

said Johnny Wright on August 5, 2008 1:44 PM.

Maybe they (Monkain and his like) have been in hiding waiting for the opportune time to attack Lion-O and Cheetara.

said Jonniewalker on August 5, 2008 2:03 PM.

Listen, if we don't start hunting them now, things are going to get out of control. Pretty soon they'll be ruling us and we'll have to ride horses on the beach if we ever want to see Lady Liberty again. Is that the kind of world YOU want to live in?

I refuse to be ruled by creatures whose greatest accomplishment thus far is their skill in flinging their own poop.

said Echowood on August 5, 2008 2:17 PM.

This is possible Jonnie Walker, my friend. Never underestimate the power of the gorilla.

said Johnny Wright on August 5, 2008 2:17 PM.

"I refuse to be ruled by creatures whose greatest accomplishment thus far is their skill in flinging their own poop."

There's a current administration joke in there somewhere but I can't seem to find it.

said Johnny Wright on August 5, 2008 2:26 PM.

Well damn.....looks like their secret is out. Guess they are going to have to issue a retraction on the article and start dropping that # again.

said Bigus Dickus on August 5, 2008 2:50 PM.

E cho,
While on a hunt in an unmentionable place and an unmentionable situation, I had the opportunity of hunting, killing and eating a gorrilla.
I wouldn't hunt kill or eat a gorrilla again.
It was too close to human.

said Dave on August 5, 2008 5:53 PM.

I killed an ate a Yeti once. Tasted like Sasquatch but a tad gamier.

said E on August 5, 2008 6:23 PM.

Hey-O!!!

said Johnny Wright on August 5, 2008 6:32 PM.

FWIW, the pic at cnn on this www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/05/congo.gorillas/index.html
has a pretty impressive pic.

said E on August 5, 2008 8:19 PM.

Goddamn my lazy editing.
The page on cnn regarding this issue has an impressive pic. I was trying to say something like that. All graceful like. Doing the grammar good you know?

said E on August 5, 2008 8:22 PM.

a) Can Mokele Mbembe be far behind?
b) How do you misplace 125,000 gorillas?
c) This quote by one of the team members, which follows an explanation that the discovery discredits the belief that, instead of a population fewer than 50,000, the existing population may be closer to a quarter million (higher than any estimate in more than 30 years) tells me ONE THING: "This is a very significant discovery because of the terrible decline in population of these magnificent creatures to Ebola and bush meat." And that one thing is that scientists are dumbasses.

Stupid, monkey-losing scientists.

said Don't Swayze Bro on August 6, 2008 3:26 PM.

Swayze, in the article the explain that they now count sea monkeys as Gorillas so its really just accounting shenanigans.

said E on August 6, 2008 5:16 PM.

... by the power of Grayskull ...

Two sayings added to my lexicon today, I snorted when I read that Johnny.

Swazye, the scientists initially thought that the area was uninhabitable by anything so they never bothered to check. Sadly, the population is most likely declining already. I hope gorilla hunters get eaten slowly by giant pythons feet first so they know what's happening to them.

Oh, and did they find George Michal's monkey there?

said Jeni Gump on August 13, 2008 2:23 PM.
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