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    The Cross River Gorillas are subspecies of the western gorilla. They are the most northern and western form of gorillas. Having only a predicted 250 remaining‚ they are the worlds rarest great apes. Cross River Gorillas can be found in the forested hills and mountains of the Cameroon-Nigeria border region at the headwaters of the Cross River. They are herbivorous‚ with fruit comprising most of their diet. Their behavior is very distinct. Cross River Gorillas are mainly omnivorous. They eat mainly

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    Uncle Todd Sparknotes

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    The jungle of Papua New Guinea‚ or PNG‚ is so dense it would take a healthy man with a machete a week to travel three miles. It took Dylan Barstow’s grandfather two weeks to be found by villagers after an airplane crash by the Sepik River‚ on the north side of PNG. His grandfather‚ in Jungle of Bones by Ben Mikaelsen‚ was flying an aerial missions in WWII when he and the crew of the bomber Second Ace crashed. Dylan and his Uncle‚ Todd‚ have set off on an expedition to find the wreckage of the plane

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    Charles Martin in Uganda

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    Case study 2-Charles Martin in Uganda 1) Describe Ugandan cultural attributes that might affect operations of a foreign company operating there? Uganda is a country of lacking infrastructure and lots of bureaucratic hoops to jump through. Governmental and Political corruption make it hard to do business without handing out bribes. The native language of Swahili‚ and few speak English. The many religions of Uganda also make foreign company’s respect them in order to avoid discrimination in the

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    Whitley Acre Mrs. Hill Honors English 9 26 January 2012 Outbreak: The Ebola Virus in Sudan‚ Zaire‚ and Uganda By killing ninety percent of its victims‚ Ebola is one of the most effective viruses known to man. This virus does not have any specific requirements for its host‚ it simply attaches itself to a species and does as much damage as possible. Ebola is extremely contagious; it is practically unstoppable‚ incurable‚ and unpreventable. The ease of transfer between species makes detection

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    Central African Republic

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    Central African Republic Central Africa has been inhabited by people for over 8000 years. The population of the early Africans remained low because of a limited food supply. As they started to have more advanced farming the population grew. In the 15th and 16th century Europeans started to make written records of what was happening in Central Africa. The first really significant form of outsider interference in the country started when the Arab slave trade began in the 1600s. It lasted until

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    The Forest People Summary

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    The Forest People The forest people is referring to the pygmies of Africa. They live simple yet‚ complex lives. We might view them as less complex because of how small their population is. However they have rules and ways to achieve higher status than others. This book gives a great account from an anthropologist of what these people were like in the 1950s. It is important to remember that the pygmies in the Inturi forest might be living completely different lives. This book is only a snapshot of

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    Sources of african history A source of history can be divided into two big groups‚ remnants and storytelling which usually are called primary and secondary sources. The primary sources‚ remnants and written documents are counted as more reliable than the oral history. African history has been a challenge for researchers because of scarce written sources in many regions‚ especially sub – Saharan Africa. Prejudice against black Africans in particular‚ which goes far back in history‚ has meant that

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    Trypanosomiasis‚ otherwise known as African Sleeping sickness‚ is a parasitic infection that is concentrated heavily in central and sub-Saharan Africa. The following research conducted on Trypanosomiasis is based on the African country of Central African Republic where the people there are most affected by the infectious disease. Central African Republic has a total population of 4‚525‚200; where 2‚226‚439 are males‚ and the remaining 2‚298‚770 females. In regards to age group‚ the majority of the

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    Anthro 202

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    Deep in the emerald forests of central Africa live the BaMbuti‚ a Pygmy race having their own unique way of life and culture. This way of life and culture is intricately patterned by their habitat: the Ituri Forest itself. In the 1950s anthropologist Colin Turnbull visited the BaMbuti of the Ituri Forest. He lived among them and did extensive fieldwork which he describes in his book The Forest people. What Turnbull discovered above all else is that the BaMbuti are a people who live by the forest

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    Rainforests

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    Period 2 4-11-12 They Should Be Saved Rainforests cover about six percent of the world. Millions of tribal people inhabit these rainforests. A little less than fifty percent of the world’s animals and insects live in the rainforests. Although rainforests seem so important‚ they are being destroyed at an alarming rate today. Humans should stop cutting down rainforests because destroying them causes plants and insects to become endangered and there is also a great supply of fruit and nut trees

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