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AudibleNod May 10, 2026 +364

>The mountain bongo is a rare antelope known for its brown skin and distinct white stripes. With fewer than 100 individuals left in the wild, a conservancy based in Kenya is breeding them and slowly reintroducing them into the wild, with a target of 750 wild bongos by 2050. I never heard of a bongo until now. Seems cool.

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Osiris32 May 10, 2026 +49

This is good news! But it's hard not to make jokes with a name like that.

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Crowasaur May 10, 2026 +17

>I never heard of a bongo You can hear it now: https://youtu.be/BCoP7G2K7Hc?si=0uRDI7kLr_XPe3wk

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HoneyCrumbs May 10, 2026 +5

This song was on a CD my parents used to play in the car all the time for me when I was a kid in the 90s. Sound of my childhood right there!

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mortgagepants May 10, 2026 +3

all their albums slap. i love manu chao

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pm_sweater_kittens May 11, 2026 +1

Had a home in my car for the kiddos in the 00’s too

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Historical_Lab8619 May 10, 2026 +53

This species is being saved through captive breeding programs in zoos, where they are carefully bred and then gradually reintroduced back into the wild. The main goal is to rebuild their population and prevent them from going completely extinct.

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Cultural_Meeting_240 May 10, 2026 +83

The fact they got a nickname like ghost of the forest is so cool

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Historical_Lab8619 May 10, 2026 +50

The “Ghost of the Forest” name itself reflects its true nature. It is extremely shy, elusive, and rarely seen in the wild. Its striped body also helps it blend into the forest, making it even harder to spot.

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LunDeus May 10, 2026 +36

Billionaires around the world in synchrony “I want that on my wall.”

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spinbutton May 10, 2026 +8

Like an Okapi!

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Historical_Lab8619 May 11, 2026 +1

yes right

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ShaiHuludNM May 10, 2026 +58

I’m all for this. Humans have caused so much ecological devastation, it’s our duty to try and fix what we can. Hopefully without making things worse.

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teruteru-fan-sam May 10, 2026 +12

To paraphrase Gordon Ramsay, finally some good f****** news

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JMDeutsch May 10, 2026 +7

I thought the Okapi was the ghost of the forest?

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MichaelEll1s May 10, 2026 +9

Totally thought this was phish related

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zaprutertape May 10, 2026 +3

ha same

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UnpluggedUnfettered May 10, 2026 +15

That's crazy, I didn't realize how endangered they were. I literally [pet one](https://www.wildliferanchtexas.com/) on the snout recently, in Texas, from the window of my car, about 5 miles from a Super Walmart.

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outawork May 10, 2026 +10

The eastern subspecies is endangered, the species itself is not.

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UnpluggedUnfettered May 10, 2026 +9

That's the wild part, it's the [critically endangered one](https://www.wildliferanchtexas.com/animals?pgid=lhqtb8hv-a34a038b-e098-4ea7-8d9c-4fab92b865f5) (note the url) that I got to pet from the window of my car, 5 miles from a Super Walmart.

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outawork May 10, 2026 +6

Cool. Apparently they breed fine in captivity.

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dwbthrow May 10, 2026 +3

Such wonderfully unique creatures. I hope the conservation efforts will be successful.

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George_Is_Upset May 10, 2026 +2

Omg yay! I think I remember seeing the Bongo on Secrets of the Zoo (I believe in Tampa) and thought they were so beautiful!

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jackstraw_wichita May 10, 2026 +2

Unexpected r/phish related content

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androomaj May 10, 2026 +1

You gotta run like an antelope

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untold-vignette May 10, 2026 +1

I remember in high school, a history teacher was arguing with us there was no such thing as a Bongo. Some of us had all read about it in the same textbook in another class earlier that day. I think he had some misplaced concern we were doing a little unfortunate stereotyping or something?

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k_realtor May 10, 2026 +1

While I think this is neat but also have no faith in humanity so I think it might be a bad idea.

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spinbutton May 10, 2026 +1

Please be the Bongo...please be the Bongo....yay! My fav antelope!

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WYLFriesWthat May 10, 2026 +1

I see how ya tryin’a get me excited about a antelope. It ain’t working tho’

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TemperateStone May 10, 2026 +2

Let's hope nobody kills them for boner pills or some other superstitious bullshit.

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lamora229 May 11, 2026 +1

Anyone else read Kanye several times and be thoroughly confused by this title?

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FlippingPossum May 11, 2026 +1

I had no idea these were so rare. Beautiful animals.

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Cama_lama_dingdong May 10, 2026 +1

Don't let the rich know. A US millionaire will swoop in with suitcases of cash to pay off anyone they can. just to take a pick with the antelope corpse. Takes a weak man to shoot animals for game and the US has plenty of em.

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bubba_bumble May 10, 2026

*Ghost of the Forest takes a deep breath* Ahhhh. So this is freedom? Yaaas. Finally back home in my native land! *Tiger jumps out from a patch of grass* FUUUCK!

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glittercarnage May 10, 2026 +2

a lion

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Osiris32 May 10, 2026 +1

Tiger? In Kenya?

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Hesitation-Marx May 10, 2026 +20

Different forests are differently haunted.

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Hesitation-Marx May 10, 2026 +26

…. Not to be a d*** or erase First Nation cultures, but is it possible that indigenous Kenyans used the term for the bongo, independent of its use on Turtle Island?

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HadoMasterBackup May 10, 2026 +18

Or that perhaps people decided to use the term for a different animal that exhibits similar behaviour?

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DonQui_Kong May 10, 2026 +10

> It didn’t appear independently, at the same time, on 3 different continents. For a term so incredibly generic, its very very likely that it appeared independently multiple times.

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Osiris32 May 10, 2026 +9

And have any First Nations people complained about this? Or do they not care so this outburst is meaningless?

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‘Ghost of the forest’ returns to Kenya as conservationists reintroduce rare antelope into the wild

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