We almost always encountered monkeys chattering when venturing down this path. Once we came across the prints of a gorilla.

Once we came across the prints of a gorilla. This path, near the Dja river in the south region of Cameroon, lay next to the small village of Bemba. The village folk, Baka hunter-gatherers ...

The Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli), whose fragmented habitats straddle the Nigeria-Cameroon border, remains one of the rarest great ape subspecies, with an estimated population of ...

They can only be found in the wooded hills and mountains along the Nigerian border, with Cameroon at the Cross River’s headwaters. The male Cross River gorillas can grow 5 ft 8 in (175 cm ...