Among the Great Apes Adventures on the Trail of Our Closest Relatives Paul Raffaele For Cecilia, Catherine, Andrew, and Elisabeth Contents Maps Prologue The Mountain Gorillas: Gorillas and Guerillas in the Mist 1 For much of the past century, the artful chimpanzee and… 2 We touch down at Nairobi airport, bleary-eyed, at 4:00 a.m. local… 3 Dave and I left his vehicle at a mud-hut village… 4 More than a decade has passed since Jonathan, Dave, JB,… 5 The border crossing at Goma in eastern Congo is an… 6 Emmanuel de Merode, WildlifeDirect’s executive director, has just flown in… 7 Months after the deaths of Rugendo and his females, I… The Wild, Wild Chimpanzees 1 In the dark, dank silence of a remote East African… 2 Richard Lynch Garner was the first Westerner to attempt seriously… 3 Far from the African jungle where Imoso rules his Kanyawara… 4 On my way to Kibale from Nairobi, I fly over… 5 On the sixth day that I am with the group,… 6 A world away from the cruelty of the Pyongyang zoo,… The Bonobos: Our Long-Lost Cousins 1 For most people, chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, and, for the purists,… 2 By November 2006 the Congolese civil war had largely come… Photographic Insert 3 We climb a narrow path up a slope, leap across… 4 Bonobos are among the cleverest of the great apes, and… 5 That chance to meet the world’s most famous bonobo, Kanzi,… King Kong at the Brink: The Western Lowland Gorillas 1 Living in Sydney on the other side of the Earth… 2 Sitting next to me on the flight from Paris to… 3 Dave Greer, the American primatologist from Rwanda, has moved to… 4 Despite the evidence of toolmaking by Leah at Mbeli Bai,… The Cross River Gorillas: Rarest of the Rare 1 In the cloudy highlands along the border between Cameroon and… 2 That night I visit Yaoundé’s best nightclub, owned by one… 3 On the way back to Yaoundé, once again a procession… 4 After a couple of hours’ sleep I go to dinner… 5 An alarm clock wakes us at 6:00. The trackers emerge… The Enigmatic Orangutans: Borneo’s Man of the Forest 1 Before heading to Borneo, I honor a commitment to go… 2 In 1971, Biruté Galdikas journeyed by jet plane, speedboat, and… 3 To be with orangutans in the wild, and witness efforts… 4 There is a hush over the river just before dawn. A Call to Arms Bibliography Searchable Terms Other Books by Paul Raffaele Copyright About the Publisher Maps