a chimpanzee with a strong centre part standing on a forest trail
Lafrog (the internationally acceptable spelling of Laphroaig), bringing a little je ne sais quoi with his pencil-thin moustache nose-line and super smooth centre part...
#whiskychimps #teamWaibira
📷 @harmonieklein.bsky.social
A chimpanzee (Jura) reaches for figs on a branch
OG whisky trio : Elgin, Morangie, and Jura were all older males in the early days of #teamWaibira habituation - as a result the few photos of them are typically with their faces full of tasty figs!
#whiskychimps
Next up with an impressive set of side burns for a younger guy.. we've got Ardbeg bringing the pensive smoulder..
side note: my suggestion to name a chimp Uigeadail led to a rare universal veto on the grounds that no-one needs that many vowels in their name..
#whiskychimps #teamWaibira
A distinguished older male chimpanzee naps in the sun
One of my personal favourites and another ex-alpha, the silver fox of #teamWaibira
Please show appropriate respect (and don’t wake him from nap time) for Talisker…
#whiskychimps
A chimpanzee with a freckled face looks at the camera
Our former alpha Ben (Nevis)
Also the Scots term for our mountains. Which he resembles by being short in stature but easily takes down the overconfident…
#teamWaibira #whiskychimps
A chimp on the ground scrumping yellow fruit
Next up Fiddich (we need different letter codes for our IDs so we had to drop all the Glen’s)
His nickname is chubby for obvious reasons, will never knowingly be early to leave any feeding situation 😂❤️
#teamWaibira #whiskychimps
A chimpanzee sits on a branch looking off into the canopy
Starting off with a classic : meet Macallan!
Like his namesake he’s smooth and classy (and popular with the ladies!)
#whiskychimps #teamWaibira
Appropriately one of the communities of chimps in this dataset has a generation of males named after single malt whiskies 😂🥃🙈🧪
Since I’m stuck in an airport for several more hours, one like = whisky chimp photo/backstory!
#teamWaibira #whiskychimps
A young female chimpanzee gazes into the distance in the Budongo forest, Uganda
#teamWaibira ladies : very demure, very mindful…
Not like those Sonso hooligans..
#gonechimping #budongochimps 🧪
A camera trap installed on a tree in the Budongo forest, with an orange backpack behind it
Figured what better way for #teamWaibira to mark this momentous occasion than the inaugural installation of the 24/25 dry season 25L trap 🥳🤓😂
#Budongo #gonechimping 🧪
Wooohoooo 🥳🥳🥳 all the congratulatory hooots to the fantastic (basically now) Dr Hella Péter 🐵🍃🐵 so excited for all the awesome #teamWaibira chimp-mamas science to come!!
🧪 #BudongoChimps #chimpfant
A male chimpanzee relaxes sitting on a liana looking up into the forest canopy
Just chilling with the boys (after they force marched me straight off territory north on my last morning to have a little verbal spat with the neighbours because I guess I hadn’t done enough hiking with them this trip 🙄)
#teamWaibira #gonechimping #fieldwork #BudongoChimps 🧪
we realised that not only were #teamWaibira @BudongoChimps going there regularly but other chimpanzee groups (its in a border area) & other wildlife seemed to be feeding there. At 1st we thought maybe it was the copious insect life but it turned out to be the guano itself 🥴 3/8
Once upon a time following #teamWaibira chimps in early days of habituation we came across a tree making a strange noise whose hollow trunk turned out to contain a bat colony
TLDR Ugandan wildlife are feeding on guano & getting exposed to a host of bat viruses 1/8 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
A young adult male chimpanzee turns to look at the camera while sitting quietly in a small tree in the Budongo forest
Time to #EatFigsnChill - best to learn a little patience when you’re one of the 30 independent males on #teamWaibira
#gonechimpin #fieldwork #Budongochimps #Budongoforest #Uganda
Today I cheated on #teamSonso to go in the forest with #teamWaibira... And for what?? The only thing I've seen was this average sunrise!
#teamWaibira = #teamNoChimps
#losers #TheyPretendToWorkAndToHaveChimps
#WhereAreThe100 ?
