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Gorillas’ homecoming

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One of the Taiping Four: Off to the Cameroons.

Four rare gorillas have been flown from South Africa to Cameroon, five years after they were illegally smuggled to Taiping Zoo in Malaysia. The Malaysian authorities returned the four Western Lowland gorillas to South Africa in 2004 and they have since been kept at Pretoria Zoo. The International Fund for Animal Welfare said the “Taiping Four” will now be taken to a wildlife sanctuary. The male and three females were sedated before being put into giant crates. Tinu, Izan, Oyin and Abbey, all six years old and weighing about 100kg each, are to be transported to the Limbe Wildlife Sanctuary in south-west Cameroon. The vet who travelled with the animals said the journey had taken 18 hours from Johannesburg, which included a six-hour stopover in Nairobi, Kenya. "

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