Coronavirus and Our Fellow Great Apes
Key to our Apes Like Us program is exploring the impact of threats to all great apes; disease is one of the greatest of those threats. In the past two decades multiple accounts of ape deaths due to disease have raised alarm amongst scientist. Rarely does that threat...
Chimp Subspecies: The Many Faces of Chimfunshi
Encountering your first wild chimpanzee cements in your memory an image about what a chimp is and looks like. For me, that was chimpanzees at Gombe Stream National Park on the sandy shore of Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania. In 1989 I was a naïve wannabe wildlife...
March Primate of the Month — Chimpanzee Subspecies
March Primate of the Month — Chimpanzee Subspecies Chimpanzees Chimpanzees are the most abundant of the Great Apes, both in number and geographic range. The four subspecies have a combined population of 172,000-300,000 individuals left in the wild, which occupy a...
Little Larry Would Have Made Dr Seuss Proud
It’s hard to say for certain but I feel pretty confident that Dr Seuss would have enjoyed everything about the roly-poly precocious Little Larry. So, it only seems fitting that as we celebrate the one-year anniversary of our most recent National Geographic Kids Book...
Chimp Politics — Day 8: Kibale & Kyambura Chimpanzees
With Entebbe barely in our rearview mirror, it was only our second full day and we were exchanging glances with chimps. “Our” chimps had left the secure rainforest Kibale National Park into neighboring protected community land, an affirmation of the need for community...
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