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godsmac, Flickr Scientists in Africa have embarked on two ambitious projects to keep dwindling colonies of wild chimpanzees from dying out. In Guinea, West Africa, just 13 chimpanzees remain in a virtual island of trees near the Bossou village, an Oxford University zoologist told USA Today. Zoologist Dora Biro explained that the fading colony is just three-and-a-half miles from a mountain range "full of chimpanzees" that could provide a continuous influx of new residents. The problem is, the groups are separated by a wide stretch of savanna that makes the journey too dangerous. So since 1997, the Japanese biologists who established Bossou as one of the world's six sites for the long-term ...