Wildlife
Bonobos and Gorillas: 3 Live Cameras — DR Congo
Three cameras in the DR Congo: a bonobo forest, a bonobo nursery, and the path Grauer's gorillas walk. All three run only during local daylight.
What you can see
Three cameras in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, all at sanctuaries returning animals orphaned by poaching to the wild.
The bonobo forest (Lola ya Bonobo, Kinshasa) shows adult and young bonobos living in the sanctuary forest — eating, sharing, climbing, playing and resting, a day at its own pace.
The bonobo nursery is where bonobos aged one to five grow up in the care of human surrogate mothers. They bounce on a trampoline, climb, chase each other and eat fruit and vegetables. Most are eventually released.
The Grauer's gorilla forest path (Kasugho, North Kivu) watches the corridor between the night enclosure and the forest. The gorillas have to pass along it, which makes it the easiest place in the sanctuary to see them. Their diet of coarse, fibrous vegetation is heavy, so they often rest on the path for a long while.
Cameras you can watch now: 3
All 3 are live video. Tap one to open it in the camera list.
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Live video
Bonobo forest (Lola ya Bonobo)
Kinshasa · Wildlife · Nature
Adult and older juvenile bonobos living in the sanctuary forest. Eating, sharing food, climbing, playing and resting run through as an ordinary day. Streamed from 08:00 to 17:30 local time.
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Live video
Bonobo nursery
Kinshasa · Wildlife
A nursery where bonobos aged one to five, orphaned by poaching, are raised by human surrogate mothers. They bounce on a trampoline, climb, chase each other and eat all kinds of fruit and vegetables. Many are later released. From 07:00 to 16:00 local time.
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Live video
Grauer's gorilla forest corridor
North Kivu, Kasugho · Wildlife · Nature
The corridor between the night quarters and the forest, which is where the Grauer's gorillas at this centre are most often seen. Because they eat so much fibrous vegetation they also spend long stretches resting in it.
When to watch
For these three the stream itself only runs in local daylight. The hours the providers give are 08:00 to 17:30 for the forest and 07:00 to 16:00 for the nursery, local time.
Kinshasa is 8 hours behind Japan, with no summer time. That puts the forest stream at 16:00 to 01:30 Japan time and the nursery at 15:00 to 00:00. North Kivu, where the forest path is, is 7 hours behind, an hour off the other two.
So the Japanese evening and night are when these three are running. Open them in the Japanese morning and the stream is likely to be down.
No provider gives a season. Sitting on the equator, the length of the day here hardly changes at all.
If it isn't showing
All three also appear on the DR Congo page, and every animal camera is gathered under Wildlife.
Elsewhere in Africa there are Savanna Waterholes and African Rivers; for the same kind of waiting in Japan, Subjects That Keep You Waiting.
How to pick the hour is set out in Which cameras are in daylight now.
Where to find Bonobos and Gorillas
Agencies publishing the cameras on this page
- explore.org (Deep links and embeds OK, no image reuse) — Official site
The footage belongs to each agency. This site is an unofficial guide, and each sample frame was copied once per camera under that agency's terms of use.