Category Archives: Bonobo

Bonobo Mourners at a Bonobo Grave

David came as a volunteer to learn about the forests of central Congo. And he certainly learned a lot about bonobos. Soon after he arrived he accompanied John to dig up a bonobo skeleton. Picture of bonobo skull unearthed near the T4 transect. Later David got the full story from the team that buried the […]

Why Not Kill a Bonobo

Arrested and on his way to Kindu. No escape possible. It was on 1st July 2015 that Asanga Gilbert brought four dead bonobos into Likanjo, the hunters’ village that has cankered up on the west side of Bafundo. A PALL1 informer sent a message by HMS radio to Leon in Kindu. “You should be here,” […]

Bonobo personality

Great ape females are submissive to males — except for Bonobos. Bonobo personality in the wild is the subject of an article recently published in a scientific journal, American Journal of Primatology. A popular version has just come out; BBC Earth writes this about the article. A young male at Lola ya Bonobo, a sanctuary […]

Bonobos in the Baies

TL2’s bonobos have different strategies in different areas across a wide ecological range. Above a group is feeding in a baie or forest clearing called Musubuku in the northern part of the Lomami National Park. On the map above, each survey grid square is 100 km2. The area within each square had at least 10km […]