Elusive bonobos in the jungle 🐒 – BBC

Elusive bonobos in the jungle 🐒 – BBC

Coming under attack from some angry bees so everything is just getting quite a bit trickier getting properly attacked Now by oh I think this is this is just about the toughest jungle I’ve been in jungles in Colombia in Burma in Borneo they’re not as bad they’re not as

Uncomfortable they’re not as sticky and bitey as this is this is tough this is really tough I think this is going to be we are going to be very very lucky to see bonobos here I hate to say it but then suddenly we do get Lucky noise is ahead we think we might have heard some bovos up Ahead and then just in front of me I can see shapes moving in the trees we all need to be wearing these masks not just for Co but for the transmission any other virus or disease the bobos are just about 15 20 M through the trees

There but the foliage is so thick they might as well be a mile we need to get a bit closer slowly carefully I’ve got it I’ve got it there are bers just above us in the trees right Here I can’t believe this I never thought we would get so close I never thought we would really see them to be honest they’re just blind out but now Look my heart is racing my Skin’s tingling to see these creatures here in this pristine environment is breathtaking these are some of our closest living relatives perhaps our closest closer even something than chimpanzees our cousins our kin bonobos are only found in the Congo and there’s still much to learn about

Them we do know they live in extended family groups which the females tend to do dominate even though they’re smaller than the males I just love their relaxed gentle nature which is probably because they don’t have much competition for food Lumber’s Keen to impress on me that

What larger animals like bonobos eat is crucial to the whole forest ecosystem this is a really crucial point a forest isn’t just the trees it’s everything that lives there protecting a forest isn’t just about stopping illegal logging it’s protecting all the life within oh my goodness babies I can see one 2 3

4 there’s one just up the Trump of the tree above us on our busy Planet wildlife and wild areas are taking a hammering countless extraordinary creatures are being pushed towards Extinction but this Wilderness in the Congo and these or inspiring animals are a reminder Beauty and wonder still exists compared to other great

Rainforests around the world the Congo is still relatively untouched there is still time to save and protect this unique ecosystem

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Simon Reeve travels through the Congo, the second-greatest rainforest on earth. In one of the toughest journeys he’s ever undertaken, Simon travels five hundred miles across dense tropical jungle, heading for the region of Salonga, where he searches for one of the rarest and most iconic creatures on the continent – the bonobo.

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