Passage4 "At the time Ebola was hitting their village,they saw something strange Nearby in the forest,they saw a pile of 13 dead gorillas." The killer?Ebola.Mr.Quammen says for the western lowland gorilla. Ebola has been devastating--extremely destructive.He spoke to VOA on Skype. "There has been an epidemic wave of death passing through gorilla populations across central Africa,a wave of Ebola that has been killing them as well as occasionally killing humans." Peter Walsh of the University of Cambridge in England studied gorillas in a Congolese wildlife protection area in the early 2000s.At that time, two Ebola outbreaks struck.Ninety to 95 percent of the gorillas simply disappeared. Mr.Walsh says he and his team estimated that Ebola would destroy 45 percent ofthe population in just one generation. Mr.Walsh participated in writing a study of the situation of the western lowland gorilla.The study resulted in placement of the animal on the critically endangered list. 215 Passage 4 2 / 5 "At the time Ebola was hitting their village, they saw something strange. Nearby in the forest, they saw a pile of 13 dead gorillas." The killer? Ebola. Mr. Quammen says for the western lowland gorilla, Ebola has been devastating -- extremely destructive. He spoke to VOA on Skype. "There has been an epidemic wave of death passing through gorilla populations across central Africa, a wave of Ebola that has been killing them as well as occasionally killing humans." Peter Walsh of the University of Cambridge in England studied gorillas in a Congolese wildlife protection area in the early 2000s. At that time, two Ebola outbreaks struck. Ninety to 95 percent of the gorillas simply disappeared. Mr. Walsh says he and his team estimated that Ebola would destroy 45 percent of the population in just one generation. Mr. Walsh participated in writing a study of the situation of the western lowland gorilla. The study resulted in placement of the animal on the critically endangered list