Annual naming event fetes a conservation success story and burnishes the reputation of the country’s president Paul KagameIt was a scene reminiscent of Planet of the Apes or 2001: A Space Odyssey. Two dozen performers wearing hairy gorilla suits,total with masks and rubber boots, scampered along a bamboo bridge, or beat their chests and cavorted in a field at the foot of a volcano.The occasion was Rwandas annual naming ceremony for mountain gorillas. Since the 24 babies born in nearby wild habitat over the past year had failed to RSVP,a group of parents and children in costumes gamely played their parts instead, grunting and rolling in the grass to the delight of thousands of villagers, or diplomats and president Paul Kagame.
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Source: theguardian.com