🚨 New Site alert ! 🚨
On June 16th Crystal Gully was completed and we have now opened Midnight Shell!
We are back in the range of Eastern chimps (P.t. schweinfurthii) in the mountains of Nyungwe National Park. The habitat is dense, and higher altitude with some unique species, some of which we may have seen at our other Rwandan site Black Rock (Gishwati). This site is small but jam packed full of chimps, so get online now to ChimpandSee.org before it's gone!
Crystal Gully (CG) was an incredible site where we saw a lion, the webs of social funnel-web spiders,
and new suspected hybrid duikers . We also spotted incredibly rare Central African pottos — and not only that, they were chasing each other (normally super slow), in a pair (normally solitary), and on the ground (normally arboreal). 🤯 - check it out here: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/sassydumbledore/chimp-and-see/talk/subjects/68782225
That meant, lots of new tags for this site, and lots of new discoveries! It was really a pleasure being in the unique mixed habitat of the Bateke plateau, eastern Gabon!
In case you haven’t been around, the trotter videos from CG are still up in the trottersID workflow and the primate videos from CG will be up soon, so you still have a chance to see this beautiful site! …and if you love baboons, there are 1000s of algae eating, swimming and jumping baboon videos still up from Cascading Arches in the MonkeySee workflow ;) those are really easy to do !
We leave you this month, with our beautiful lion video from Bateke / Crystal Gully (this lion was the first one seen in Gabon in 20 years and has kicked off a big conservation effort to bring back the species to Gabon!): https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/sassydumbledore/chimp-and-see/talk/subjects/68714937
Cheers,
Mimi & the Chimp&See team 🐵
