Sentences with phrase «killing wild chimpanzees»

Human researchers are killing wild chimpanzees by inadvertently giving them colds, a new study shows for the first time.

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Teleki calculates that for every infant that survives a year at the final overseas destination, 10 chimpanzees die in transit or on arrival, or are killed in the wild by poachers — small wonder that conservationists are alarmed at the impact continued commercial exploitation will have on wild populations whose habitats are being progressively destroyed.

Scientists investigating an outbreak of respiratory disease in a community of wild chimpanzees in Uganda were surprised and dismayed to discover that rhinovirus C was killing healthy chimps.

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