Bouboule is recovering !

During the last week, sweet elder female Bouboule has been very sick with what may be the same intestinal infection that nearly killed Jacky in January. We have been very worried, but today, she seems to have turned a corner. She drank and ate well this evening.
Bouboule spent nearly three decades in a small cage at the zoo in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Finally, in 2003, with the help of our friends at Ape Action Africa we were able to bring her to Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center. Here, in a five-acre forested enclosure Bouboule soon adopted not just one, but four juveniles, who have maintained close ties with her as they’ve matured into young adults. Occasionally, if they ask, she still shares her food with Aaron, Boumba, Jessica and Karmal.
Photo courtesy of Agnes Souchal.