The safari begins with some startling revelations - some of the most primative fish in the world, a bizarre-looking bird the size of a man, and secret places where forest animal congregate.

The BaAka pygmies of the Congo are the supreme naturalists of the rainforest. Yet they tell of a huge dinosaur-like creature with a single horn called Mokele Mbembe, which lives in the swamps of the Ndoki.

Congo has the largest concentration of primates in the world, and the forests are home to all three closest living relatives of humans: chimps, bonobos - pygmy chimps - and gorillas.

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