Chimpanzees live in the forest eating figs.
They are hard to see from the ground when they are up in the fig trees eating.
But with binoculars you can find them.
But mostly they were just busy eating and didn’t care about us.
The males were done eating for the day and were down on the ground sleeping much closer to us.
And grooming each other.
There were old ones.
And younger ones.
They were mainly lying around trying to take a nap after a busy morning of eating.
They were interested in what we were up to as well.
But not enough to do much more than yawn and lay around.
It really is a lot of work being a chimpanzee.
They have really big mouths.
It can look scary but it is just a big yawn.
Still we would not want to ever be on the bad side of a chimp.
More likely just join in the nap session.
Or just relax in the forest as it was pretty hot out.
The facial differences are quite interesting and the guides can tell who is who.
Most have a good temperament.
Like this guy.
There is one that you have to look out for. This is not him.
This guy was mainly yawning often.
These two were grooming almost the whole time we were there.
They groom all over, even behind the knees.
Their nails stay quite short with all the climbing and walking around.
Their nails look cleaner than ours sometimes and they are walking around in the dirt most of the time.
This chimp was easy to identify because he had a damaged eye, or a cataract. We couldn’t tell from where we were.
This ones eyes were fine and look around at all the stuff going on, including all us tourists.
This female had a red bum because she was ready to mate.
This caused a fight between the males which was very exciting. Sorry for the lack of videography skills.
