In this photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a baby gorilla shouts from atop its mother's back in the Republic of the Congo on July 31. Female gorillas produce on the average one baby about every five years. A new census conducted by WCS and the government of the Republic of the Congo tallied more than 125,000 western lowland gorillas in the northern part of the country. Previous estimates from the 1980s placed the entire population of western lowland gorillas, which occur in seven Central African nations, at less than 100,000.
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