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See Bouboule & Karmal Today

See Bouboule & Karmal Today

 

In the winter of 2003, In Defense of Animals – Africa worked closely with friends at Ape Action Africa to finally liberate Bouboule from a small dilapidated cage at a government owned zoo. When Bouboule was a young infant, poachers had slaughtered her family, taken her captive, and sold her to the zoo, where she was held in deplorable conditions for three decades. Part of this time she was housed with an adult male, but if she ever had a baby, that infant didn’t survive.

At Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue she was soon integrated with adult male Ballas in a lush five-acre enclosure, and a few weeks later baby orphans Jessica, Aaron, Boumba, and Karmal were introduced to them. From the first day, Bouboule was nurturing, kind and maternal with all of the babies! For several years, none of the four were ever far from her side, but Karmal was the smallest and the one she carried on her back most often.

Bouboule is particularly fond of savory African plums and loves licking the seeds clean. She will occasionally still share food with the chimpanzees she once adopted and nurtured so lovingly, but despite Karmal’s not-so-subtle efforts to encourage her “mom” to share, the plums are Bouboule’s to enjoy!

Photo courtesy of Director Sheri Speede

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