Ronan Donovan Instagram – Rosa and Betty sitting comfortably high in a fig tree in western Uganda. Rosa was an interesting female because she never left her natal community of wild chimpanzees. In order to maintain genetic diversity, the females will leave their family at puberty and go find another community of chimps where they’ll live out the rest of their lives. ⁣ ⁣ I find it so fascinating that in such a social and bonded species like chimps that after 16 years the females will never see their family every again. It’s one of the least studied behaviors in wild chimps because it would require numerous neighboring communities of chimpanzees to be habituated/studied, which doesn’t exist yet. ⁣ ⁣ Learn more about chimps in the current issue of @natgeo magazine, through my posts here and by following the conservation NGO @bulindichimps⁣ .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ .⁣⁣ #chimpanzee #chimp #chimpanzees #chimps #ape #wildlife #conservation #animals #africa #uganda #wildlifephotography #nature #natgeo⁣