Hello again! Here are some photograph captions and explanations for you, to help you understand who’s who, and what’s what in my second batch of photos! Hope you enjoy! :o)

#1: The entrance into Luikotale camp

#2: A tree viper (poisonous) snake that two researchers found and brought back to camp!

#3: Fish kiss - a "nina" electric fish

#4: Dr Andrew Fowler, me, and two porters - about to make the 25 km trek to Lompole (nearest village)

#5: Porters posing in a pirogue (dugout canoe)

#6: Ipope villagers crowd around to have their photo taken

#7: Children in Ipope (closest village to the airstrip)

#8: Children gather outside Mara's house in Lompole

#9: Picturesque pirogues (in the “Luikotale port”)

#10: Djaman & Innocent (two superb cooks who work for the project) with a big day’s catch of fish - 10.5 kg!

#11: Female infant bonobo - Olivia

#12: Ndopo (project fisherman)… clowning around

#13: Lots of smoked fish (all caught by Ndopo!) – put out to “sun” to preserve

#14: Photos of the picturesque Lokoro River first thing in the morning
(the other side of the river where we cross/bank to resume the journey to Lompole)

#15: My Valentine’s Day flower :o) - “bototoko”

#16: Djoli (project cook) and I skipping rope together - a little evening exercise

#17: Teaching Djoli some highland stretches and movements

#18: An elephant graveyard in the forest... very neat!

#19: An eagle which landed near camp one afternoon

#20: Ben (male bonobo) HIGH up in a bopfumba tree. (you can spot
him in the very centre of the first picture) Ben is likely the lowest ranking of the 5 adult male bonobos, often stays on the periphery of the group and is most tolerant of my presence.

#21: Uma’s swelling. (Uma = adult female bonobo)
This photo captures what the researchers and assistants here spend most of their days looking at --- bonobo swellings and genitals. Funnily enough, it is most easy to differentiate between female bonobos and to identify them by their “swellings”.

#23: Ndopo (with two of the avocados that he picked) & Rashidi

#24: Ditmar, a German cameraman, filming Martin – preparing some bonobo urine and faecal samples that he collected.