Bonobo Plays with Calf

Ngombe (Lingala for "cow") was a calf that I inherited from friends during the looting of 1991 -- she had been born to a mother that had had no milk and was to be euthanized. Instead, I took her and raised her on powdered milk. Here she is in the middle of a bonobo who is trying to pet her, a volunteer, and one of the cats that we rescued from departing expatriates.

Photo by D. Messinger