Housing for Orphaned Bonobos

This was the building for the orphaned bonobos in Kinshasa. There were eight cages (four foot by eight foot, by eight foot high), four on a side, and an open-air work space. Each unit had a metal roof that covered half of the space as well as a central hallway.

I loved living so close that I could walk to work every day. Immediately behind the bonobo building was a large tract of land -- probably five acres -- that contained a never completed guest complex, a meeting hall, the sheep pasture, and my studio apartment.

Photo by D. Messinger