Congo Photo Gallery: Expedition Bonobo The only jungle dwellers more mysterious than the Iyaelima people are the rare bonobo apes that live alongside them. A perilous expedition into the Democratic Republic of the Congo hopes to establish contact that will help preserve them both. Photograph by Robert J. Ross
Salonga National Park is full of surprises. Here, while on one of our early bonobo searches, writer John Falk encountered a particularly unfriendly tree. —Photographer Robert J. Ross