The group lives in the bush—rather than the forest as is more common—alongside other similar chimp communities in Senegal's Kedougou region on the border with Mali and Guinea. Primatologist Jill ...

In Senegal's Kedougou region, a group of locals have had their lives changed - thanks to a community of chimpanzees. From working in precarious conditions in the many gold mines of the region, the men ...

A West African chimpanzee climbs down a baobab tree on the Fongoli home range in the Kedougou region, on December 9, 2025. [AFP] Michel Tama Sadiakhou's future dramatically changed course some 15 ...

A West African chimpanzee climbs down a baobab tree on the Fongoli home range in the Kedougou region, on December 9, 2025. [AFP] Michel Tama Sadiakhou's future dramatically changed course some 15 ...

In Senegal, a troop of chimpanzees seek shade in a cave, a behavior never recorded before. In Senegal a troop of critically endangered West African chimpanzees seek shade in a cave to avoid the ...

Nine years later, Erin Wessling can still remember the first time she visited Fongoli, a savanna in southeast Senegal. “You feel like you walk into an oven,” she said. Other WRAL Top Stories ...

Michel Tama Sadiakhou's future dramatically changed course some 15 years ago thanks to a clan of spear-wielding apes: instead of the dangerous work in informal gold mines that is the fate of many in ...