The chilling screams might have been human, if it hadn’t been for the hooting too. “Hurry,” muttered ranger Ronald Tindyebwa, lifting his rifle. “Something is wrong.

I heard them like this once before, when a chimp fell out of a high tree and died.”

With nervous excitement we ran towards the ruckus, slipping down a greasy hill to the edge of a swamp, just 50 metres from the chimps. They were huddled in two trees, shrieking at something terrifying on the floor. We couldn’t see what the danger was because of a bush the size of a small house. Read the rest of this entry »

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