Here are the highlights of my hour spent with the mountain gorillas in Parc National des Volcans in Rwanda. Many thanks to my guide Bill Mulumba at Primate Safaris (www.primatesafaris-rwanda.com) for making it possible. Enjoy!
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Sulla piazza d’una città
la gente guardava con ammirazione
un gorilla portato là
dagli zingari di un baraccone
con poco senso del pudore
le comari di quel rione
contemplavano lo scimmione
non dico dove non dico come
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d’improvviso la grossa gabbia
dove viveva l’animale
s’aprì di schianto non so perché
forse l’avevano chiusa male
la bestia uscendo fuori di là
disse: “quest’oggi me la levo”
parlava della verginità
di cui ancora viveva schiavo
attenti al gorilla !
il padrone si mise a urlare
” il mio gorilla , fate attenzione”
non ha veduto mai una scimmia
potrebbe fare confusione
tutti i presenti a questo punto
fuggirono in ogni direzione
anche le donne dimostrando
la differenza fra idea e azione
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tutta la gente corre di fretta
di qui e di là con grande foga
si attardano solo una vecchietta
e un giovane giudice con la toga
visto che gli altri avevan squagliato
il quadrumane accelerò
e sulla vecchia e sul magistrato
con quattro salti si portò
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bah , sospirò pensando la vecchia
ch’io fossi ancora desiderata
sarebbe cosa alquanto strana
e più che altro non sperata
che mi si prenda per una scimmia
pensava il giudice col fiato corto
non è possibile, questo è sicuro
il seguito prova che aveva torto
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se qualcuno di voi dovesse
costretto con le spalle al muro ,
violare un giudice od una vecchia
della sua scelta sarei sicuro
ma si dà il caso che il gorilla
considerato un grandioso fusto
da chi l’ha provato però non brilla
né per lo spirito né per il gusto
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infatti lui, sdegnando la vecchia
si dirige sul magistrato
lo acchiappa forte per un’orecchia
e lo trascina in mezzo ad un prato
quello che avvenne fra l’erba alta
non posso dirlo per intero
ma lo spettacolo fu avvincente
e lo “suspence” ci fu davvero
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dirò soltanto che sul più bello
dello spiacevole e cupo dramma
piangeva il giudice come un vitello
negli intervalli gridava mamma
gridava mamma come quel tale
cui il giorno prima come ad un pollo
con una sentenza un po’ originale
aveva fatto tagliare il collo.
attenti al gorilla !
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Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla)
* Type: Mammal,
* Diet: Omnivore,
* Average life span in the wild: 35 years,
* Size: Standing height, 4 to 6 ft (1.2 to 1.8 m),
* Weight: 150 to 400 lbs (68 to 181 kg),
* Group name: Troop,
* Protection status: Endangered.
Did you know? Western lowland gorillas live in the smallest family groups of all gorillas, with an average of 4 to 8 members in each.
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A majestic Congo silverback gorilla hurls great clumps of mud and grass as he patrols the riverbank at the edge of his territory.
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tracks recorded by Adam Ant and Boz Boorer (I am a huge fan of BOTH). Recorded at Boz’s home studio. I love the beginning of the video when Boz cracks up at Adam. IMO Adam was in a manic faze of bi-polar when this was recorded, which is a good thing and a bad thing. I could write a million words about bi-polar disorder. I don’t have it but my twin sister does and the drugs she now takes have ruined her creativity. Love to Boz and Adam.
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund can no longer promote the sale of the Save the Gorilla CD due to legal wranglings with EMI. Although proceeds of the CD would have gone to benefit the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, legal permission was not fully granted by neither EMI or Marco Pirroni. Until such activities are settled, the sale of the CD has been withdrawn. However, you can inform the DianFossey Gorilla Fund of your interest to purchase this item in future, if made available here. Also visit the Sun’s article dated November 16, 2003 for further information. Also you are encouraged to donate to a cause that Adam supports. Visit: dianfossey.org for more info.
Save The Gorilla
lyrics
Do you want me to do it again?
I am the gorillaman
Who you’re too scared to mention
I spend your cash
On looking flash
And grabbing your attention
The devil take your
Filthy stinking freak show baby buyer
You earn big time in purgatory
A roasting in fire
Save the gorilla
Your money for their lives
Hug a gorilla
No bullet or a knife
I am the gorillaman
So tired of diseases
With 30 percent of us gone
And into jungle squeezes
You get away with robbery
By stealing all our baby’s
And leave us all rotting
In the mist or locked in cages
Save the gorilla
Your money for their lives
Hug a gorilla
No bullet or a knife
And even though you fool your soul
Your conscience will be mine, all mine
Oohoo ooh ah ah ah 5x
Oohoo ooh aaaaah
They’re the handy psychomen
You don’t like how they deal ‘em
They rope and beat and massacre
And just for fun they eat ‘em
I don’t know the next verse
Because I haven’t even writ it
Bollocks…shit…Ooh pooh
Save the gorilla
Your money for their lives
Hug a gorilla
No bullet or a knife
We are the gorilla men
…………..Oh ha ha haaa!
Save the gorilla
Your money for their lives
Hug a gorilla
No bullet or a knife
etc etc etc..
Enough already!
(This song was recorded by Adam Ant and Boz Boorer to support the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.
The single wasn’t released, but if you want to support the Fund anyway, you can do that here
The lyrics were transcribed by Defi_Ant and Monk from the AntRap Board )
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http://www.wcs.org/gorilladiscovery
The world’s population of critically endangered western lowland gorillas has received a huge boost. A new, groundbreaking census released by the Wildlife Conservation Society shows massive numbers of these secretive great apes alive and well in the Republic of Congo.
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Tracking the highly endangered Mountain Gorillas is one of the most exhilarating wildlife encounters one can have. Only an estimated 750 mountain gorillas are left in the wild, and can be found in Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Currently it is safe to trek in Bwindi, Mgahinga (both in Uganda), and in Parc National des Volcans (Volcanoes National Park) in Rwanda. Watching these gentle giants in their natural habitat is beyond comparison. If you wish to track gorillas, call your safari expert, toll-free 1-877-GO-ON-SAFARI (1-877-466-6723), and let us plan YOUR amazing safari to see the mountain gorillas. (It also combines easily as a three- to four day add-on excursion to any safari in Kenya or Tanzania.) – Video clip/pictures shot by Christine Eichin, Your Safari Expert, Above and Beyond Africa, in the Virunga mountains, while visiting the Sousa and the Hirwa gorilla groups mid January 2009 (Olympus SP550-UZ camera). Music: ‘Twararutashye’ (coming home) by Jean Paul Samputu, Album: Testimony from Rwanda.
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A silverback gorilla eating a banana in his zoo habitat.