Cannelle was a sixmonthold female chimpanzee when her mother was killed by poachers. Alone in the vast equatorial forest, she wouldn’t have survived if it wasn’t for the pygmies who found her and then took her to a specialist refuge. That was where she encountered Patricia Leschaeve.

There, on the banks of the Sanaga river, Cannelle’s long apprenticeship began. Over five years, Patricia gradually taught her to become autonomous and to live as part of a society, as her mother would have done.

But the return to life in the wild as part of a troop of chimpanzees is inevitable, and the separation was always going to be delicate.

Documentary: The Fabulous Story of Cannelle the Chimp
Directed by: Julien Ansault & Jean Barraud
Production: ZED

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