Rainforest habitat of the bonobo (Pan paniscus).

Bonobo (Pan paniscus), the lesser known one of the two chimpanzee species.

The dense rainforest is the home of the Okapi (Okapia johnstoni), a close relative of giraffes.

A bush pig (Potamochoerus porcus) (top left), and a turaco (top right), a rarely seen forest bird.Bottom left, L'Hoest monkey (Cercopithecus l'hoesti), an elegant rainforest dweller, and right, Kirk's colobus (Colobus Kirkii) that occurs only on the island of Zanzibar.

Some of the many species of lemurs of Madagascar. Top left, the indri (Indri indri), right, crowned lemur (), bottom left, the tiny aye-aye, and right, the common sifaka.

Madagascar can boast with the largest number of various chameleon species on earth. In addition, it is the place of many birds an plants that occur nowhere else.

A giant aloe in the western scrub and savanna vegetation zone. This species, just like many others, occurs exclusively in Madagascar.

Bathing lowland gorilla male (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the rainforest of the Congo Basin.

Two of the many rare birds of the rainforest. The african Congo peacock Afropavo congensis, and Grey-necked picathartes Picathartes oreas

Little is known about the secretive Pygmy hippopotamus Hexaprotodon liberiensis, which lives in the western African rainforests.

The Bongo (Tragelaphus euryceros) inhabits the dense rainforests.

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