Fongoli Chimps To Be Featured On the BBC's Dynasties Series! 

Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, this series follows different animals as they struggle with their own dynasty...

BBC Earth's Dynasties Website

Dynasties airs, with Chimpanzees being the first episode, on November 11 in the U.K. 

Here are some links to the video trailers!

Dynasties Video Trailer One

Dynasties Video Trailer Two

Former alpha male David is the star of the Chimpanzee episode, which features the Fongoli chimpanzees. 

Read David's story

The series will air in January in the USA... (photo of David courtesy of the BBC)

See if you can ID some of the Fongoli chimps in the film!

Chimpanzee ID guide via BBC

We've published various manuscripts about the Fongoli chimpanzees over the last year, but one by former Iowa State student and current Ph.D. candidate at Max Planck Institute, Erin Wessling, garnered the interest of the New York Times!  You can read the story here:

Fongoli chimps in the NY Times

In other news, Fongoli chimpanzee Lily had a daughter in May, and she is doing well. Her name is Annie, and you can see how cute she is in these photos by Iowa State University graduate student, Nicole Wackerly: