The Great Apes

[Spalea]

Ronan Donovan: " While many of us are used to the sight of a chimp eating a banana, it's not actually part of their natural diet. Bananas didn't even originate on the same continent where chimps live - Africa. Bananas are a Southeast Asia food that was brought to the Africa continent through trade in the last 2,000 years. This photo is of a wild male chimp, known as Araali to the researchers, belonging to the Bulindi chimpanzee, studied by Dr. McLennan (@bulindichimps), eating a banana in someone's garden in rural western Uganda. The second photo shows another male, named Jack, standing in a eucalyptus tree plantation (another noon native plant) and found a discarded bottle to play with. Not a good thing with how many diseases we share in common with chimps. Photo 3 shows the little strip of forest left where chimps live in this part of western Uganda. "

I don't know where I read that only 3% of the extant biomass are constituted by the wild one (plants and animals)... This third photo reminds me this sad reality. Reply