Photo Gallery
Gaining a real understanding of the apes from a comparative perspective and sharing it with the world is the focus of Great Ape Trust. The lens of a camera helps us deliver that understanding in a personal and powerful – yet respectful – manner.
Great Ape Trust
The birth, growth and maturation of Great Ape Trust and its mission can be seen through a collection of images beginning in 2002.

Summer Beauty of Our Campus

Road Scholar Visit July 2011

Great Ape Garden (early July)

2010 Flood Update August 16

2010 Flood Update July 6

2010 Flood Update July 3

2010 Flood Update July 2

Great Ape Trust prepared for flooding

Great Ape Trust, Iowa State University: Global partners in primate studies

Flood of '08: Volunteers Pitch In

Great Ape Trust of Iowa Flooding - Part 2

Great Ape Trust of Iowa Flooding

Cleanup at Great Ape Trust

Flooding from the bonobo home rooftop
Bonobos
The colony of bonobos at Great Ape Trust is like no other anywhere else in the world - from the language competent Kanzi, Panbanisha and Nyota to the matriarch Matata.

Teco at 15 months

BBC Documentary Shoot

Treetop Panbanisha

Matata in Yard July 2011

Teco's First Birthday

Teco at 11 Months

Teco at Seven Months

Baby Teco at Four Months

Baby Teco

Meet Maisha

Meet Elikya

Meet Matata

Meet Nyota

Meet Kanzi

Meet Panbanisha

Visit with Panbanisha prompts VIP guests to ponder what it is to be human

Play time results in bonobo dental work

Panbanisha and Mr. Potato Head

Bonobos explore outdoor yard

Retrospective of Bonobo Research Center
Orangutans
Orangutans are still very much a part of Great Ape Trust scientific research program. Rocky and Allie are collaborating with Trust scientists on important new studies.
Forest of Hope
Stunning photographs capture the spirit of Rwandans, the beauty of the Forest of Hope and the chimpanzees who live there on the brink of extinction.

Renner Tours Gishwati

Renner Chimpanzee Trek

Forest of Hope Attacts Researchers

Rainy Afternoon In Gishwati

Meet the Forest of Hope Chimpanzees

Ecoguards of Gishwati

Robert's Reading Group in Rwanda

Rebecca Chancellor in Rwanda

Great Ape Trust team visits mountain gorillas in Rwanda

Gishwati area visitors learn more about Rwanda National Conservation Park

Forest of Hope

Land of a Thousand Hills

Forest's Future in Good Hands

Faces of Rwanda

Akagera National Park

Gishwati Forest selected as site for Rwanda National Conservation Park

The Heart of the Forest

Chimpanzees of Gishwati
Science
Insights through collaborations with apes - unique, trusting, longitudinal relationships, developed among scientists and apes help us learn how a mind acquires knowledge.















