Monday Morning Cute: Bonobo Sanctuary

This is perhaps better classified as “touching” or “heartwarming” rather than “cute,” but close enough. Lola ya Bonobo, “the world’s only sanctuary for orphaned bonobos” is located near Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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This picture is described as “mwanda and lomela at Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary.” The caption on the sanctuary’s Wikipedia page says: “A new orphan called Lomela at Lola ya Bonobo is comforted by another bonobo.”

Photo credit: “Lr new best bonobo pics20” by Vanessawoods (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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