Hi everyone, For those who don’t know me, my name is Vanessa, and I study bonobos at Duke University. I’m also on the Board for Friends of Bonobos, and so I run this blog and help out wherever I can. One of the biggest perks of my job is that I go to Lola at least once a year. I am unabashadly in love with bonobos, they are the funnest creatures ever so I hope you don’t mind me sharing some of our research findings with you while I’m there. First things first, I’ll be updating you with what’s been happening at the sanctuary over the next few days - 10 days to be exact - we arrive at Lola on July 4! The Sanctuary has welcomed five new orphans this year, two from the province of Equateur (Boyoma et Eleke) and three from Lodja in the province of Kasai Oriental (Sake, Lomela and Katako Kombe). This was the first time we received bonobos from this province.
Having heard from a local NGO that a large number of orphaned bonobos were located in Kasai Oriental, the Sanctuary’s educators, Pierrot and Blaise, went to Lodja in August, accompanied by Anne-Marie, our nurse, to recuperate the infant bonobos and to launch an awareness educational campaign. There they found a catastrophic situation: bushmeat – including monkeys and bonobos- is considered a delicacy!
6 Comments posted on "Going to lola!"
sheryl, washington dc on June 24th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Woo hoo! look at them pretty babies! Really looking forward to your on-site posts, Vanessa. Safe journies. s.
Annie on June 24th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Great…how awesome for you to be able to do this……be safe!
Lucia Cristiana, Brasil on June 24th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
How beautiful they are! It’s so sad to know how many died leaving those little babies orphans…Thank you, Vanessa for your great work.
Wanda, Atlanta on June 25th, 2008 at 7:50 am
Delicacy - who even invented the word - I think perhaps bizzarre describes this behavior better and perhaps uncivilized even better. Cakes and pies are a delicacy not animals!
sheryl, washington dc on June 25th, 2008 at 11:01 am
That’s what I’ve been saying all along - animals are not to be eaten. http://nothoney.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/your-compassion-is-hypocrisy/ s.
constance dreyer on June 26th, 2008 at 10:12 am
You peeople actually waste medicines that are rare in Africa on Bonobo infants(who are animals not people, no matter how hard you try to portray these animals as human beings!). I mean medicines like antibiotics, oxygen, diapers, incubators, gasoline to “rescue” these filthy disease ridden animals (no matter how cute!) and you people waste this precious life saving resources on animals! What about the suffering human beings that could use this same medicine that you administer to apes, these people could use these resources to live. I fail to see how you people seem to “humanize” these animals by first diapering the things like they were human infants then you mane them just like pet owners do, and then you acclimatize them to humanity by giving them affection and misplaced love, anthromorphizing the animals into something all of you apehuggers seem determined to shove down our collective throats as “real science” Jane goodalls campain “they are just like us” to the constant belaboring of the genetic similarities 98% Human (for gawds sakes!!!) You present these animals as 98%human! These animals have none of the qualities that would qualify them as human, they are bequeathed these “Human Characteristics| by reasearchers who oh so desperatley cannot ever concede that they may be wrong in their anthromorphization of the apes to suit your critera! Hey the africans where these apes live have been hunting and eating apes way before you became our self appointed conscience. I am sick of the propoganda that phonies like Karl Amman with his posed photographs of 1 a gorilla head in a bowl on a kitchen table with a bowl of bananas next to the severed head. this was a set up photo posed for shock value. Africand do not leave raw carcasses in their homes for fear of disease. 2 A tiny infant chimpanzee is clinging to the leg of and adult woman with children in the background(a really nice photo amman has a good eye for composition) with the caption “this infant chimp orphan survivor is a plaything for children” Africans do Not allow their children near the captive infant chimps because they bite! and they carry diseases! Yet this phony and others like him Goodall are still pushing this humanizing of apes!!! No way. You people are too much. You know your centers need to be shut down by the same governments you are so hostile to , sell the infants to medical labs and release the rest into the nearest troop and the strong will live and the weak will be food for some hungry predator. Post a comment
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