Among the great apes : adventures on the trail of our closest relatives

387 Pages·2011·2.46 MB·English

by  Raffaele

Among the Great Apes

Adventures on the Trail of Our Closest Relatives
Paul Raffaele
For Cecilia, Catherine, Andrew, and Elisabeth
Contents

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Prologue
The Mountain Gorillas: Gorillas and Guerillas in the Mist
1
For much of the past century, the artful chimpanzee and…
2
We touch down at Nairobi airport, bleary-eyed, at 4:00 a.m. local…
3
Dave and I left his vehicle at a mud-hut village…
4
More than a decade has passed since Jonathan, Dave, JB,…
5
The border crossing at Goma in eastern Congo is an…
6
Emmanuel de Merode, WildlifeDirect’s executive director, has just flown in…
7
Months after the deaths of Rugendo and his females, I…
The Wild, Wild Chimpanzees
1
In the dark, dank silence of a remote East African…
2
Richard Lynch Garner was the first Westerner to attempt seriously…
3
Far from the African jungle where Imoso rules his Kanyawara…
4
On my way to Kibale from Nairobi, I fly over…
5
On the sixth day that I am with the group,…
6
A world away from the cruelty of the Pyongyang zoo,…
The Bonobos: Our Long-Lost Cousins
1
For most people, chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, and, for the purists,…
2
By November 2006 the Congolese civil war had largely come…
Photographic Insert
3
We climb a narrow path up a slope, leap across…
4
Bonobos are among the cleverest of the great apes, and…
5
That chance to meet the world’s most famous bonobo, Kanzi,…
King Kong at the Brink: The Western Lowland Gorillas
1
Living in Sydney on the other side of the Earth…
2
Sitting next to me on the flight from Paris to…
3
Dave Greer, the American primatologist from Rwanda, has moved to…
4
Despite the evidence of toolmaking by Leah at Mbeli Bai,…
The Cross River Gorillas: Rarest of the Rare
1
In the cloudy highlands along the border between Cameroon and…
2
That night I visit Yaoundé’s best nightclub, owned by one…
3
On the way back to Yaoundé, once again a procession…
4
After a couple of hours’ sleep I go to dinner…
5
An alarm clock wakes us at 6:00. The trackers emerge…
The Enigmatic Orangutans: Borneo’s Man of the Forest
1
Before heading to Borneo, I honor a commitment to go…
2
In 1971, Biruté Galdikas journeyed by jet plane, speedboat, and…
3
To be with orangutans in the wild, and witness efforts…
4
There is a hush over the river just before dawn.
A Call to Arms

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