After giving birth to a daughter in Luikotale, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the morning of March 6, 2013, in a day nest about 5 or 6 meters above ground, in the company of Uma, a multiparous adult female, and her two juvenile sons (unnamed), Luna, a primiparous bonobo, stuck her arm out the side of the nest at 10:04, “with the placenta, still attached to the umbilical cord, in her hand” (Douglas 2014: 536).

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