I just thought that everyone would want to know that according to Wikipedia hunters were causing bongo to become "endangered and extinct."
This is a lie and needs to be removed. SCI really needs to keep an eye on this website. A lot of school children use it for research.

Did you know you can change it?

I went a head and changed what appears to be the offending line. We'll see what others have to say about it.

-Steve

I can tell you for fact that the bongo has dramatically increased its range in a number of the areas I have hunted. If you had pre-logging data you could also probably show it had also increased its numbers in Cameroun.
I have hunted areas that the locals tell me their fathers never had bongo in the area at all, and now there are huntable numbers. Even major animal reference books will not show their true distribution. In the logged areas the roads open up tremendous amounts of feed for the animals on the forest floor, so even though it also lets in poachers, where the poaching is controlled the bongo numbers increase dramatically. I just think this is partly why we are seeing such a high success rate in the SE of Cameroun for bongo. Use of dogs is also a huge factor, but like most things the answers are cumulative and a balance of all the above.
Camshaft

Bongo are IMO one of the neatest antelope there is. And for all we think we know about animals, I think we barely know squat about Bongo. From the stories I've read of them, their behavior after a rain is fanatic. Even though there seems to be no mention of this, I can't help but postulate perhaps there is some extensive scent territory marking going on. There may be some very subtle and very interesting communication going on between these animals that gets disrupted by rain.

There is not an animal on this planet existing in low numbers that hunters are not being blamed for causing. Hunters get zero credit for restorative efforts. If the bunny-humpers could, they would blame the extinction of dinosaurs on overhunting.