Maya’s sweet success!
- Maya’s sweet success!
- A Decade Strong
- Spending time with Goualougo Gorillas
- Congrats to Crepin Eyana Ayina!
- Thanks Ian!
- Josh Foer visits the Goualougo Triangle
- Jean Robert Onononga presents at the International Society of Primatology
- Goualougo’s Tool Using Apes on Ants
- Congratulations Jean Robert!
- A day spent with Dorothy and baby Oz
- Focusing on Health
- Leakey grows up
- The Color of Money
- Congratulations Sydney!
- Identify this moth?
- Ambassador visits Goualougo
- Transect Team Success!
- Sydney at the Royal Botanical Garden
- GTAP in National Geographic magazine
- Origins of Deadliest Strain of Human Malaria Discovered
- Goualougo Apes in BBC Africa Series
- BBC Documentary highlights “Fire of the Chimpanzee”
- Great Apes and FSC
- Brazzaville Ape Meeting
Maya’s sweet success!
On March 4th, we had a great observation of Maya pounding for honey. She located two small stingless bee hives in the trunk of a large tree. The tool that she used to open the hive was one of the heaviest that we have recorded ? over a kilogram! She used both her hands and foot to grasp the tool as she pounded it against the hive. Mark, the juvenile son of Moja, tried to steal some honey, but was severely reprimanded by Maya. This tool using observation coincides nicely with the publication of our previous honey gathering by Goualougo chimps (see Rebecca Morelle’s science story on the BBC at https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7946614.stm).