KUMBUKA

By the time i got this shot it was pouring down and smart Kumbuka was using the curtain as an umbrella only thing is he could have gone inside to his enclosure,as five minutes later he snuck along the wall to go inside. Very funny.

Visually amazing shot.Everything has come together - all the straight vertical lines bisected by the curve of the curtain being pushed aside.Captures with great effect the movement of the downpour & the movement of the animal.Anything but a static photograph.Very charming & a memorable composition- many will be envious!

It is a very unusual/remarkable photo.

I guess he got 'caught short' by the sudden rain and ran to the shut door instead of his own open one into the dens.

Poor old Kumbuka- no company so he doesn't have much of a life at present, does he?

Bless him he is such a sweetie, and a great entertainer adapting to life spent most of the time on his own, when he was put in with Kivu and Kiondu he spent lots of time just hugging them like long lost friends and just playing he was so gentle with them, but then he allways was.. Now he spends time chasing ducks and leaping up in the air as they take off.
He runs up and down when lots of school children scream at him. After i took the pictures of him sheltering , he came out later and in true Kumbuka fashion kept spinning around and sliding on the wet grass,very funny.He seems to have resigned himself to his solitary life, there was some talk of mixing him with the youngsters as to date he has not been introdeced to N'Dowe or Matadi.

He's actually at that sort of age where a male that has left his group in the wild would move about alone rather than consort with other males, so its probably not doing him any harm, and he seems to get plenty of interaction with people.

I heard the latest plan was to send him somewhere else though...

He'd look good at London, wouldn't he? But I don't suppose that's going to happen for the reasons mentioned elsewhere on Zoochat.

I looked at his 'pedigree' and he's actually related to Mjuku more closely than I originally thought.
His grandfather Kumba(wild caught old male still at Chessington) is Mjuku's father. Also his grandmother 'Zaire'(also at London) is the halfsister of Mjuku's grandfather, the other/Jersey-born Kumba.
So with that relatedness I feel it is unlikely he will be 'in the frame' for London. A pity as he would be good otherwise.