Dr Nancy Priston

The small troop of monkeys have been hard to follow lately. With only 6 individuals they move quietly and are much harder to spot. This morning we’ve just spent 3 hours trying to find them. Finally we found one – a young female, feeding in a kapok tree but she grabbed 3 kapok fruits and ran off into some really overgrown bush and we lost her again. They’ve not raided crops in the farms for days and they’re hungry so they’ve split up and are foraging alone or in pairs and only coming back together to rest or to the sleeping tree at night. It looks like at least 2 of the female are pregnant so fingers crossed this troop should start to increase in numbers again soon. Meanwhile we’ll just have to keep searching for them!