Size and Scale

I keep talking about how little baby chimps grow so quickly into enormous and very dangerous adults but its hard to convey just how extreme both ends of this spectrum are. Today I thought I would post some pictures that give some sense of scale. These are my fingers, and two fingers from an adult male chimpanzee:



Hopefully that helps make sense of why this is so scary:

or this.
or why it wouldn't be very much fun to be in this room.


And these are the fingers of the smallest chimp at Tchimpounga (and one of mine). She is only a few months old and never leaves her mother's side.


hey eyes are unbelievable.


and just for the record...i took all the above photos under a VERY watchful eye.