It is wet, wet, and wet here! August has the highest rainfall on record in Sierra Leone (almost 100cm in one month only) and it is no different this year.
Kouze in the rain
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Everyone is soaked to the skin. Staff keep taking turns to sit around the kitchen fire in between their busy schedule. The hairy ones are having it tough too. Although the bigger boys and girls are used to this, some of the smaller chimps are down with the usual coughs and colds that this time of the year brings, but they are coping. (Our thoughts and best wishes are with the Limbe team as they work hard to treat the pneumonia hitting their primates.)
It is difficult to see the chimps in the bigger enclosures except during feeding times as everyone takes cover in the bush from the downpours. Yesterday we had a hole in the clouds and some sunlight emerged through it for a few minutes. I was happy enough to take the camera out and the chimps in Philip’s group were happy to come and see some sunlight too! They went into a grooming frenzy. Every single one was grooming and getting groomed. Even Babes was in the middle of it and allowed big boy, Jido, to groom her month old baby.
Donations made here are
Mar 18th Lara B USD 10.00