Lola Ya Bonobo

Category: Uncategorized | Date: Oct 07 2009 | By: lolayabonobo

has anyone ever seen eyes that big???

Lomako’s vet results have come back clear - she is officially healthy. But as you can see, she’s terribly thin - she needs to double her weight if she’s going to be in the healthy range. but at least she is covered in long beautiful hair.

have a feeling this one’s goign to be trouble for the boys in group 3…

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Oct 05 2009 | By: lolayabonobo

Scallions! just like Kanzi, the talking bonobo at the great ape trust in Iowa.

Apparently Lomako can eat her whole body weight in scallions in an hour. Maybe she will get to heavy for Mama Micheline to carry - let’s hope so!

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Oct 02 2009 | By: lolayabonobo

Lomako is at the sanctuary and going strong! Lomako, is of course, the wild reserve for bonobos in the Congo, and let’s hope this little one might return to the wild as well.

Her Mama is Micheline, who has been carrying her around all day every day - lucky she is just a slip of a thing and doesn’t weigh very much!

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Sep 30 2009 | By: lolayabonobo

No need for a description - just look at that face!

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Sep 28 2009 | By: lolayabonobo

Today Dilolo found a plastic bottle. Dilolo being Dilolo put the bottle on his head and walked about looked a cross between an alien and hanibal lector!

Salonga and baby Kimia are doing realy well! Salongo is such a calm and quiet mother. it’s really exciting b/c Salonga has had about 4 babies and they’ve all died. and she’s been wanting to be a mother for so long, she occasionally takes frogs from the pond and pretends they’re babies!

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Sep 27 2009 | By: lolayabonobo

Just wanted to give a million bonobo hugs to Jim Holtz, who has just funded the building of the enclosure for the juveniles - this includes rascally boyoma, the little punk dilolo, and mwanda and all the little babies who are now growing up.

As you all know, after the infants arrive they spend several months/ years in the nursery until they have fully recovered from the trauma of losing their mothers. Then they go into Enclosure 3, which is the juvenile enclosure and learn to live in their first stable group. There is a 20 acre forest for them to play in, as well as a few gentle adult bonobos who look after them, until they can finally live in the grown up enclosures.

I don’t know anything about Jim, except he is a retired physicist, which means he must be smart b/c I almost failed physics three years in a row…

thank you, jim, from us and all the rascally bonobos in group 3!

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Sep 25 2009 | By: lolayabonobo

semendwa&elikia

Elikia is such a big girl now, and spending much more time away from Semendwa. She’s great pals with Keza in particular, they spend lots of time rolling about and playing. Keza may be a terror with humans but he’s pretty sweet with the young bonobos. Keza and Ilebo were playing a kissing game today, pretty cute

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Sep 23 2009 | By: lolayabonobo

Naughty Dilolo was causing trouble during the vegetable feed today, he kept hanging about Likasi and throwing vegetables at her. He’d pick up a bundle of vegetables, wave thrm around like a lasoo and then chuck them at her. Needless to say Likasi wasn’t impressed!

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Sep 21 2009 | By: lolayabonobo

Sankuru

The two new babies that arrived a few days ago are doing very well. They are 2 little males named Lomako and Sodoro. Michelline and Henriette are being their mothers. But it means busy times for Esperence, who has to look after the rest of the nursery until Lomako and Kodoro have finished quarantine. 9 energetic little terrors charging about. And to top it all off, the whole nursery has come down with a cold. So everyone is very busy treating them and keeping an eye out. Sankuru had a bad fever, but she seems to be doing better now. Shes such an amazingly gentle female, cheeky Eleke and Sake love to dash about and jump on you, but Sankuru is just happy to sit in your lap and quietly groom

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Sep 18 2009 | By: lolayabonobo

A real play party took place today in the swamp. Manono, chief fun-maker was dashing about at top speed in hysterics as he played with the Kisantu and pthers. In fact, Dilolo felt a bit put out. Kisantu and Manono were so engrossed in rolling about wrestling, that when Dilolo patted them and tried to push his way in to join, they just rolled over and carried on their game. He kept trying to join in but they didn’t notice. Chief punk Dilolo ousted from a game!

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