Semendwa’s Baby
Category: bonobos, release project | Date: Mar 23 2009 | By: lolayabonobo
it’s a boy! semendwa has had another baby - Leki, which means ‘the first little brother’ because no other babies have a little brother except leki’s sister, elikia. isn’t he darling? i couldn’t get a very good face shot, but i assure you his little wrinkly face is just too too cute!
it’s important for the bonobos at lola to have babies, because we are hoping that mothers with infants will provide the focal groups for the bonobos who are being released. in the wild, the group centres around mother and infant pairs, so we hope this will encourage the group to stick together. Also, if the bonobos are going to be wild, they need to know how to raise babies, and now semendwa has had excellent practise!!
we’ve just got in all our donations from wildlife direct, so we’ll be giving you an update on our progress for fund raising for the release.
if you haven’t already, don’t forget to donate over at the donations widget on the right. See it, over there?
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Donations Received
- Nov 17th Maciej G. USD15.00
- Nov 15th Lucia C. USD30.00
- Nov 1st Baerbel W. USD70.00
- Oct 24th Victoria . USD22.00
- Oct 19th Robin D. USD11.00
- Oct 17th Maciej G. USD15.00
- Oct 14th Lucia C. USD30.00
- Oct 1st Baerbel W. USD70.00
- Sep 19th Robin D. USD11.00
- Sep 17th Maciej G. USD15.00
- Sep 1st Baerbel W. USD70.00
- Aug 19th Robin D. USD11.00
- Aug 17th Maciej G. USD15.00
- Aug 6th Yvonne M. USD27.50
- Aug 4th Kevin C. USD22.00
- Aug 1st Baerbel W. USD70.00
- Jul 23rd Wanda H. USD22.00
- Jul 20th Mary P. USD33.00
- Jul 19th Robin D. USD11.00
- Jul 17th Maciej G. USD15.00
2 Responses to “Semendwa’s Baby”
sheryl, washington, dc, on 23 Mar 2009
Aw, this is good news after the sadness of Mimi and her baby. I hope Leki grows up big and strong.
Can you give us more details about the release project, Vanessa? I’d like a good idea of how this is going to work. Will it be like the orangutan release projects where the bonobos get food supplements for a while until they can forage on their own? Will a doctor be available to check on them from time to time? What, exactly, is the motivation for the local people not to hunt and kill and capture the released bonobos? How will poachers be stopped from finding this new, and habituated to humans, group?
Thanks,
s.
sian, on 25 Mar 2009
Oh, how lovely! How old is her other child, then?
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