Just inside the Pangani Forest sanctuary, the path leads us to the Endangered Animal Rehabilitation Centre. Here, the research team has brought in a group of Angolan Black & White Colobus Monkeys, rescued from a threatened area. The goal is to rehabilitate the animals so they might be reintroduced to the wild.
The researchers assigned to the Centre are making notes and recording observations. They have plenty of supplies on hand, including coffee and insect repellant, to keep up their work around the clock.
One of the Colobus Monkeys here recently gave birth (you can just see the baby's face peeking out from under its mother's fur in the 2nd photo above). The team has been documenting every bit of activity, from the mother's interactions to behavioral changes with the rest of the group. Their observations are shared on bulletins and chalk boards all around the area.
Rehabilitation of a threatened species is just one of the stories being told on the Pangani Forest Exploration Trail. While it may be part of the fiction of Harambe, though, the reintroduction of species to wild areas is also among the real work being conducted by the Animal Programs team at Disney's Animal Kingdom. To read more about their efforts and a success story of reintroducing white rhinos, follow this link.
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