#Chimpanzee attack gorillas driver
Tragedy struck instead on 23 April 2006, when 31 chimpanzees escaped.įor taxi driver Issa Kanu and four other men it was a day of horror. Some even threatened to shoot the chimpanzees, but Bruno’s fame helped protect them. Bombs fell nearby and soldiers twice raided the centre for supplies. King Bruno describes how life in the sanctuary improved for the chimpanzees and how they even survived the dangers of the civil war, which ended in 2002. He was a giant among chimpanzees, around 20-30 percent heavier than an average adult male. Within two years the centre was home to 24 chimpanzees. In 1995 the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry provided land in the Western Area Forest Reserve and funded staff to support Bala as he set up the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary there. She met Bala, Sharmila, Bruno and Julie in the early 1990s and sowed in Bala’s mind the ideas of a sanctuary for Sierra Leone’s orphan chimpanzees. Jane Goodall, the world’s foremost chimpanzee expert, agreed. But as the apes grew bigger and stronger it became clear that they could not stay in a human home much longer. They named it Bruno.īefore long they acquired a second chimpanzee they called Julie.
It looked sick so they paid US$30 to rescue the animal and raised it in their home. Accountant Bala Amarasekaran and his wife Sharmila were in a small village 150 kilometres north of the capital Freetown when they saw a young male chimpanzee for sale. It tells the true story of how a legendary chimpanzee called Bruno was orphaned by hunters, lived among humans, survived encounters with soldiers during Sierra Leone’s civil war and then disappeared on a day of deep tragedy. That’s exactly what author and illustrator Paul Glynn has done with his book King Bruno, which he will launch in London on 6 February. Poverty had propelled these people to hunt chimpanzees and widespread logging made it harder for the chimps to hide. The chimps needed that sanctuary because people had killed their parents and captured the youngsters to sell as pets. Issa Kanu died because chimpanzees escaped from a sanctuary in Sierra Leone. His death was a tragic accident, but it had a root in rainforest politics.
On 23 April 2006, Issa Kanu died like no man should.
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