http://gorillasound.wildlifedirect.org Research and conservation of western gorillas. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:22:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The other day Kingo was in the swamp. We were going to follow Kingo in the afternoon. Every morning three trackers go out to make contact with Kingo and once the group is found one of the trackers comes back to camp. When Kamo came back to camp he ... http://gorillasound.wildlifedirect.org/2009/11/21/another-male/ The Mondika site has been in existence since 1995 when it was started by Dr Diane Doran. A large series of small paths have been created to allow us access to the forest and the areas that the gorillas frequent. It is a grid system and every path has ... http://gorillasound.wildlifedirect.org/2009/11/17/kingo-doesn%e2%80%99t-like-change/ Finally we managed to put few minutes of the wonderful chorus the Ba'Aka sang in the forest when we went with the families of our trackers to spend the night with them in the forest close Moussapola. The night started after we had eaten coco, fufu and forest antilope, hunted traditionally ... http://gorillasound.wildlifedirect.org/2009/11/15/baaka-music/ Today I want to tell you a story one of our trackers, Mbolo, told me the other day after coming back from the forest. Julia and I went in the morning and then Mbolo and Dona, the afternoon team, came to follow the group until 5 p.m. Those are ... http://gorillasound.wildlifedirect.org/2009/11/13/mbolo-story/ The other day the whole group was feeding on leaves high up on a Ngombe tree. Kusu and Ekendi were together at the top of a smaller tree maybe 20m below the others. We're not sure what happened but suddenly they were fighting. This wasn't the usual play fighting ... http://gorillasound.wildlifedirect.org/2009/11/08/kusu-and-ekendi-have-their-first-fight/ The other day in the forest, while we were following the gorillas we had an elephant following us! Fortunately we were in forest with good trackers who are not scared of elephants and lead us away from it very smoothly. For the first two hours in the morning I ... http://gorillasound.wildlifedirect.org/2009/11/04/elephant-encounter/ Sorry for the lack of blog posts over the past few weeks. The satellite internet connection didn't work for awhile but is now back online. October is not a great month. It's the rainy season so it rains nearly every day. If it rains during the night the gorillas ... http://gorillasound.wildlifedirect.org/2009/10/30/we%e2%80%99re-still-alive/ I've spent the past two days following Kusu and Ekendi. Although close together in age, these two gorillas have very different behaviours. Kusu is more independent and will spend a lot of time just hanging out close to Kingo, while Ekendi will often spend a long part of the ... http://gorillasound.wildlifedirect.org/2009/10/18/following-juveniles/ The other day was Emilie's turn. Following her is not always easy and never relaxing! She walks incessantly, moving so rapidly from one spot to the next that if you are not always ready to run you could easy lose her. Anyway, we were following her among the rest ... http://gorillasound.wildlifedirect.org/2009/10/14/againmekome-bites-ekendi/ Kingo's home range is on the other side of the Mondika river to our camp. To cross the river we have a bridge. Over the actual river it is a proper bridge; planks on top of tree stumps, and over the swampy part of the river it is just ... http://gorillasound.wildlifedirect.org/2009/10/11/the-elephant-and-the-bridge/