Gorilla Made Famous by Dian Fossey 'Returns From the Dead'
Feared dead a few months ago, a silverback named Cantsbee has reappeared from the mist.
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Cantsbee (seen in January 2017) often takes care of babies and juvenile gorillas, more so than other silverbacks.
Photograph by Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund
By Jason Bittel
PUBLISHED January 6, 2017
It can't be—but it is. Three months after he disappeared without a trace, Cantsbee the mountain gorilla has returned.
One of the last two mountain gorillas named and studied by Dian Fossey, Cantsbee was presumed dead last October.
No gorilla of Cantsbee’s stature has ever been observed leaving his family group voluntarily, and continued searches of his home in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park yielded no sign of the 38-year-old silverback, according to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. The average age for an individual in this gorilla population is somewhere in the 20s.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/01/cantsbee-famous-gorilla-feared-dead-found-alive/
