PLANET EARTH Jungles

There are other benefits to coming here. These clearings are the only places where the forest elephants can get together in such numbers. When they return to the forest, they will have to go their separate ways, once more. If large animals are rare in jungles then groups of large animals actually living together, are even rarer. This posse of hunters is not only formidable, it's also very large.



In their search for food chimpanzees（黑猩猩） move effortlessly between the forest floor and the canopy. They're one of the few jungle animals able to do so. Figs are a vital part of a chimpanzee's diet and some just can't seem to get enough of them. But there's something special about this stretch of forest in Uganda（乌干达，东非的一个国家）. Fruit is actually abundant and a lot of food supports lots of chimps.



At a hundred and fifty strong, this community of chimps is the biggest yet found in Africa jungle. Their numbers are so large, that they need a big territory, lots of fig trees and they're willing to fight for it. These calls announce the start of a raid into land controlled by their neighbors. As they leave their core zone, the patrol goes silent, occasionally stopping to listen.