Uganda: Chimpanzee Murungi gives birth

  1. Posted on Tuesday 26 August 2008 - 11:11
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    Fredrick Mugira, AfricaNews reporter in Mbarara, Uganda
    A thirty-two year old chimpanzee in Uganda has given birth, increasing the number of rare primates in the country. Murungi's child has increasing the number of the chimpanzee population at Kyambura gauge in Queen Elizabeth National Park to eighteen.
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    Jack Twerebere, a tourism ranger guide at the gauge says that the birth of the new kid is much important especially at this time when the chimpanzees on African continent face greater extinction due to climate change, poaching and encroachment on their habitants by man.

    He says that the sex of new born baby which is suspected to be a female “is yet to be identified because its mother is still shielding it from rangers, tourists and fellow chimpanzee.”

    He says its sex could be physically identified after about month when its mother stops shielding it.

    Twerebere says that, “Murungi now has a family of three chimpanzees with first born called Maji and the second born called Moya.” He suspects that the Chimpanzees in this gauge could have committed insect that resulted into the conceiving and subsequent delivery of Murungi.

    Chimpanzees are advanced mammals that are facing danger of extinction worldwide. However, Twerebere says that the survival of Chimpanzees at Kyambura gauge face great threats from diseases such as cough, flue, polio, anemia and cancer.

    Wild animal researchers suspect that Uganda could have lost about 90 percent of its chimpanzees in the last 500 years. There are about 5000 chimpanzees in Uganda alone. Chimpanzees which can be seen in Uganda more easily than anywhere else in the world.

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