Malui—the higher-ranking of the two females in the family group—walks through a cloud of butterflies she has disturbed in a bai.

Western lowland gorillas dwell deep in the forests of the Congo Basin, but their days may be numbered if we can’t bring them into the light.

chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus)

The Great Divide

Spotlight

04.25.2017

A fateful crossing of the Congo River by ancestral apes led to the rise of the modern bonobo.

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The Forest Between Us

The Great Divide

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