Chimpanzees

Sweetwaters was not only a game park where we could see Kenyan wildlife in the open, it was also an animal sanctuary. We mentioned earlier their blind rhino but they were also host to a troop of chimpanzees whose homes in west africa were so unstable that they have been rescued and are attempting to rehabilitate them.
Kathryn and I have very different feelings about most primates. I have read very little about them or early peoples and therefore find them fascinating because they are so like us, while Kathryn has read extensively about them and finds them enough like people to be a little off-putting. But there was something about this confused, tired, bald old ape that I could relate too ;)
The troop consisted of perhaps a dozen individuals and while birth control is being added to their food (which has to be provided since their natural diet is not found in the indigenous plants of Kenya) they had managed to have a baby as well, which while an additional strain on the park has apparently been very good for the chimps morale and behavior.
While it is noble that they are being conserved in Kenya it is sad that their natural habitat is so broken and anyone looking to lose a little more hope in mankind should read about the Democratic Republic of Congo and the hell that people and apes alike are going through in that particular corner of the world.