Democratic Republic of Congo | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Sat, 01 Dec 2018 19:13:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/talkinganimals.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-talking-animals-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Democratic Republic of Congo | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 John Lukas, president of The Okapi Conservation Project https://talkinganimals.net/2013/12/john-lukas-president-of-the-okapi-conservation-project/ https://talkinganimals.net/2013/12/john-lukas-president-of-the-okapi-conservation-project/#respond Wed, 18 Dec 2013 18:15:37 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=3696 John Lukas—President of The Okapi Conservation Project—describes some of the key traits of this distinctive-looking, fascinating animal found only in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).  The okapi is often referred to as elusive—Lukas used the adjective “secretive”—because it’s enormously rare to see the animal in the wild, owing in part to its solitary nature, […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2013/12/john-lukas-president-of-the-okapi-conservation-project/feed/ 0 3696 Claudine André, bonobo partisan https://talkinganimals.net/2013/10/claudine-andre-bonobo-partisan/ https://talkinganimals.net/2013/10/claudine-andre-bonobo-partisan/#respond Wed, 02 Oct 2013 04:00:54 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=3527 Claudine André—a Belgian conservationist who in 1994 founded Lola Ya Bonobo, the world’s only sanctuary for orphaned bonobos, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)—provides an overview of bonobos… What they are (great apes with a much lower profile than the others: chimpanzees, gorillas or orangutans), and how they typically live (peaceful, matriarchal and […]

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