Apenheul - Amphiteatre

The amphiteatre where the gorilla feeding sessions are held in Apenheul, the Netherlands.
July 2008

I suppose that these feeding sessions allow the public to see the apes being active and visible, which might be difficult to attain without the lure of food.

The gorillas can completely disappear in their huge natural enclosure, so I would recommend going to the feeding session. At the end of this particular session some trainers let an abyssinian ground hornbill fly over the audience.

I Totally understand and get why they built this amphiteatre.

Just personally dont like it. Yet l would build 1 myself. Like it/Hate it!!!

As for that Hornbill!! He was bizzare to say the least!!!

That is it- the enclosure is large enough for them to disappear from view at other times. It is very impressive to see them emerging out of the woodland in anticipation of feeding- of course they somehow know exactly the feeding times and start heading towards the moat some few minutes earlier and then hang around waiting. So if you turn up fifteen minutes before the advertised time you can normally get some good viewing and the chance for some decent photos before they start stuffing their faces with food.