Do you ever imagine what contrasts a 2% DNA sequence difference makes? Well, that’s what for we go into this jungle to witness and appreciate.
Chimpanzees are our closest relatives, which we often study for tool use. They help us understand the roots of human intelligence, sociality, and behaviors like compassion and cooperation. Yet that 2%, it makes all the difference; humans engage in complex spoken language, invent multi-step tools, advanced problem solving, and perform sustained endurance running. All these, chimpanzees cannot do, at the most, not that well.
Our visitors get to track these apes through the thick jungles of Kibale Forest – the Primate Capital of the world; an area of rich biodiversity towering trees and numerous primate and bird species.
