the city of Bondo, 200 kilometres to the west, in 2004. In 2006, Hicks moved the study to the much denser forests around Gangu, and 50 to 55 kilometers from the road to Bili. By 2007 they had grown frightened of the new arrivals to the city of Bili as gold was found in the region, and moved south of the Uélé. In 2007, Hicks was based in the city of Aketi, a few hundred kilometres southwest of Bondo. As of 2014, a large contiguous population of chimpanzees is now known to occur in the lands along both sides of the Uélé throughout Bas-Uélé District, in a range of habitats. They can be found throughout the region, in the savannahs around Bili and the dense rainforests a few hundred kilometres south. They are adapted to humans and occur within four kilometres of Bili, as well as other neighbouring towns such as Lebo and Zapay, and within thirteen kilometres of large cities such as Buta. Conservation Primates throughout the Congo are hunted for bushmeat, although less to the north of the Uélé. Beginning in 2007 the Bili area saw an influx of gold miners, prompting concern by Westerners about the animals in the area. Over a 14-month period between September 2007 and November 2008, Hicks and his associates documented 34 chimpanzee young and 31 carcasses for sale in the cities of Buta, Aketi and Bambesa. See also Mangani (fictional "great apes" of the Tarzan series) Sympatric speciation References External links "The giant lion-eating chimps of the magic forest" on the UK Guardian website. Chadwick, Alex. NPR.org "In Search of Congo's Bili Ape" Radio Expeditions (a co-production of NPR and the National Geographic Society). Cleve Hicks's webpage at Max Planck institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. . Stray bullet paralyzes experimental psychologist. Apes Hominid cryptids Mammals of the Democratic Republic of the Congo