Primate

Coming of Age

Young gray langurs share a close bond with the females of their troop—but lingering together for too long can be deadly.

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The Good Mother

In Tanzania’s Gombe National Park, chimpanzee mothers keep their offspring close—for years—teaching them what they need to know. They’ve taught us a great deal, too.

Malui—the higher-ranking of the two females in the family group—walks through a cloud of butterflies she has disturbed in a bai.
The Forest Between Us

Western lowland gorillas dwell deep in the forests of the Congo Basin, but their days may be numbered if we can’t bring them into the light.

chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus)
The Great Divide

A fateful crossing of the Congo River by ancestral apes led to the rise of the modern bonobo.