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Selfies putting gorillas at COVID risk – Herald Sun
Wildlife tourists taking selfies with mountain gorillas have put the animals at huge risk of developing coronavirus and other diseases, research says.
Wild gorillas are being put at risk of catching coronavirus by hundreds of tourists taking selfies, scientists have warned.Wildlife tourists taking selfies with mountain gorillas have put the animals at huge risk of developing coronavirus and other diseases, research says.
Scientists from Oxford Brookes University in England studied hundreds of Instagram posts from travellers getting up close with the endangered gorillas. They found numerous instances of tourists getting close enough to the primates…
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