By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, December 29th, 2014
in Blog.
The Gorilla Doctors team would like to extend our gratitude to Dr. Donna Shettko, who recently met with our entire veterinary team at our Musanze, Rwanda headquarters to give a seminar on wound healing, amputation and suture techniques during monthly rounds. Dr. Donna kindly agreed to write about her experience, and her history with Gorilla […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, December 16th, 2014
in Blog.
Garry Weber, CEO of Weber Financial Inc. and a very generous supporter of Gorilla Doctors, recently purchased a generator for our office in Goma, immensely changing the efficiency and efficacy of our work in the DR Congo. Our DRC team members are thrilled because they can now work uninterrupted during the frequent power outages in […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, December 8th, 2014
in Blog.
During a routine health check of Kwitonda group in May 2013, Dr. Jean Felix had the incredible opportunity to witness the first documented incidence of tool use for food acquisition by mountain gorillas. His observation was recently published in the American Journal of Primatology under the title “Tool Use for Food Acquisition in a Wild […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Tuesday, November 25th, 2014
in Blog.
The infant chimpanzee who was confiscated from poachers by Rwandan police on November 15th is slowly growing more confident and healthy under the attentive care of Gorilla Doctors Rwanda veterinary team and his three dedicated caregivers at the Kinigi orphan care facility. The youngster is still fearful at times, and takes to hiding under his […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, November 24th, 2014
in Blog.
Mihanda, a female juvenile mountain gorilla who lives in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, was freed from a wire snare in an intervention led by Uganda Field Vet Dr. Fred, with support from the Uganda Wildlife Authority. Mihanda was found by UWA rangers early Friday morning near her night nest, struggling to free herself from the […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, November 17th, 2014
in Blog.
Young silverback Muturengere was recently injured defending his group from an intruding lone silverback in Volcanoes National Park. During Dr. Jean Felix’s veterinary assessment on November 12, he observed the leader of Isimbi group interacting yet again with another silverback, Gicurasi of Pablo group. Four of the six Isimbi group females (Isura, Poppy, Ruhuka, and Africa) […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Sunday, November 16th, 2014
in Blog.
Gorilla Doctors and the Rwanda Development Board were notified on the evening of November 15th that a “baby gorilla” had been confiscated from poachers and was being held at the Gisenyi police station, near the border of Rwanda and DRC. When an orphaned ape is confiscated by authorities in the region, Gorilla Doctors makes immediate […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Monday, November 10th, 2014
in Blog.
We are heartbroken to report that Ntabwoba, a 13-year-old male Grauer’s gorilla living at the Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education (GRACE) Center in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), passed away unexpectedly on November 5th. Ntabwoba was just making the transition from blackback to silverback and, with his charismatic personality, was a beloved gorilla to […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, November 7th, 2014
in Blog.
With a mother who was a nurse and a father who was a Medical Officer, there was little doubt as he was growing up that Benard Ssebide would one day end up in medicine. After years of study at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, Dr. Benard completed his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree. It was […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Thursday, October 30th, 2014
in Blog.
Orphan Grauer’s gorilla Kalonge was rescued in early March after she was caught in a snare and brought to a local village chief by a group of young boys outside of Kahuzi Biega National Park (read about her rescue here). Through a joint rescue operation by ICCN and Gorilla Doctors, 2-year-old Kalonge was brought to […]
