Sentences with phrase «cameroon chimpanzees»

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In May 2006, the same group of researchers who first identified the Pan troglodytes troglodytes strain of SIVcpz, announced that they had narrowed down the location of this particular strain to wild chimpanzees found in the forests of Southern Cameroon.

He and his colleagues obtained feces from 24 gorillas living in Cameroon, 47 chimpanzees from Gombe National Park in Tanzania, 24 wild bonobos from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and 16 people from Connecticut.

Of the three strains of HIV known to infect humans, we know that two — the one causing the global AIDS epidemic and another that has infected a small number of people in Cameroon — came from a chimpanzee virus called SIV.

The types most similar to HIV appeared in chimpanzees living in the African country of Cameroon.

But Earthsight's examination of recent satellite data has found that the clearing has come within 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) of the Ebo Wildlife Reserve, the site of a proposed national park and a sanctuary for the endangered Nigeria - Cameroon subspecies of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes ellioti).