The weekend was fun. We went out to the Jane Goodall centre for chimpanzees. A fascinating place. All 39 chimps there had been rescued, some from absolutely terrible conditions. These conditions had damaged the chimps mentally in different ways and they displayed this in dysfunctional behavior, like pulling all the hair off their arms, acting aggressively and throwing things at us, sitting quietly by them selves and so-on.
We hadn't realised that chimps are extremely strong. Our tour guide was telling us that a fully grown chimp was 6 or 7x stronger than he was and would kill a human with ease. Toward the end of our visit it became apparent they were unable to locate one of the chimps and feared he may have escaped from the very large enclosure. So when they asked us to leave we didn't hang around to explore the place further. We haven't heard any more of Claude's escape so guess they found him somewhere.
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| This is the edge of one of the enclosures. You can see the edge of the bush that makes up the centre. We're quite struck by how much some of the chimps in this pic look like people. |
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| This guy had learned to clap his hands and then hold his hand up, meaning; "hey I'm over here, throw some goodies" |
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| This is Murphy the Irish chimp keeper talking to one of his guests |
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| It wasn't all primates. The main building had some nice architecture and landscaping. |
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| Very Moroccan, we thought. |
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| Cozy the chimp getting ready to scream and throw something at us |
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