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   ocr: African - Mammals which were disappearing even then. He brought many speci- mens back to the Museum, where he created the hall, with its twenty-nine dioramas. Sall - A( - Through his efforts an area was set aside to protect mountain gorillas in the Kivu Mountains of Zaire- the first animal sanctuary in Africa. The dioramas do not merely evoke the sites that Akeley visited; they replicate specific animals in specific geographic locations at a specific time. In creating these works, Akeley forever changed the practice 214