Gillian and I had been to Uganda before to see the rare mountain gorilla, and this time we decided to travel there to see chimpanzees. Our first chimp track was at Kibale national park near Fort Portal. Here the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) have habituated three chimpanzee communities to the presence of humans (meaning that [...]

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The young Blackback came over and sat not far away, gazing into the distance, as if in deep thought. And then an interaction most people only dream about – being fifteen feet from a four hundred pound Gorilla picking scabs off his fingers and eating them. A curious gaze from his rich brown eyes makes [...]

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