Lola Ya Bonobo

Category: lomela | Date: Jan 27 2008 | By: admin

 it’s taken us a while to get our act together with donation items, apparently the rangers in Congo are more technical than us:) but now we’re on. For $20 a  month, one of these two delightful girls can be yours!

Lomela and Kata still sleep with their arms around each other, you can see Lolo on the right - isn’t she amazing with all that hair!!! And there’s Kata on the left, the little sook, apparently before this picture was taken she threw a huge tantrum because she didn’t want to go to bed.

It costs quite a bit to keep Lomela  in bananas, apparently she eats even more than when i was there - and i once saw her eat 3 bananas, 2 mangoes, 3 pieces of sugar cane and some weird red fruit all in one go!

That’s PVC piping Lolo. You can’t eat it! Please someone sponsor her so she doesn’t starve!

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Category: the sanctuary | Date: Jan 17 2008 | By: admin

Hi everyone,

thanks so much to

Theresa S for$25 this month, Brigitta for her monthly $10 donation and Sheryl B for her months $10 donation!

I’ve got lots of mail asking about the old pics that disappeared, and I just uploaded them all again. so now you can go back and see kata and lolo at the very beginning! Or at least go and see them because it took me hours to find them all again!

You’ll notice a lot of the comments are gone, i had to repost and lose some b/c for some reason this blog is attracting hundreds of spam porn comments. well, i spose for a bonobo blog, it’s only normal.

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Category: the sanctuary | Date: Jan 16 2008 | By: admin

Thank you so much this month to Theresa S who gave us $100 and also to our friends at the Stuttgart Zoo!

National Geographic were at the sanctuary last April as part of a documentary called Ape Genius. It was all about how brilliant the bonobos are, which of course we knew already but it was nice to see on film….

Check it out on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/apegenius/extras.html

It’s the one called ‘An indirect approach’…

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Category: lomela | Date: Jan 11 2008 | By: admin

Ok guys, I know you’ve been waiting a long time for this, and here she is - tu da!

can you believe it! Look how big she is - and that hair!! I can’t beleive she has her hand in the food bin. Typical! According to all the mamas she is a sweet tempered bonobo, very friendly with all the others as well as playful. she’s also really calm, unlike Kata who is a big of a tantrum thrower.

She’s so different to the little waif I first saw here.

Look at her tummy, normal sized now instead of distended from malnutrition. And she’s HUGE, happy and laughing. What a wonderful beginning to a new story…

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Category: kata | Date: Jan 04 2008 | By: admin

I’ve just got an email from Amandine, a French researcher at Lola with news and wonderful photos.
You won’t even believe how big Kata is now -she is positively enormous! All that milk she refused to drink 6 months ago didn’t do her any harm and it looks like she’s caught up with the rest of them. Look how tiny she is here with Anne Marie

Then see how she is with Yvonne now!! Unlike her previous fussiness she eats absolutely anything! As you can see from the sheer size of her. Go little Kata - go!

Isn’t she georgeous? By all accounts she’s a sweet bonobo, just like when she was a baby, however, Pierrot reports that she can be a little cool, and occasionally very quick tempered! But generally she loves to be with the others, but if when she wants something, she’ll get it at any price! Tenacious little thing, sounds just like a young Hilary Clinton.

As a matter of fact, her mama Yvonne says Kata has developed quite a dominating personality which makes it a little hard for her to find friends. But she’s trying to change! Maybe a new Madam President in the making?

Stay tuned for more pics, especially of Lolo - great work Amandine!

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