Protecting apes from COVID-19
The coronavirus can probably infect great apes — putting endangered animals in Africa and Asia at risk. Tourism in African parks has been stopped, and researchers who observe chimpanzees in Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire are taking extra precautions, such as wearing masks and changing their clothes, to prevent animal infections. If these measures fail and apes get too sick to defend themselves from leopards and poachers, researchers plan to sleep nearby to protect them. On the Indonesian island of Sumatra, an orangutan-conservation programme has moved some of the island’s orangutans to another site to reduce the risk to the whole population.
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