The dignity of Great Apes is inviolable
Interview: Peter Singer – Deutsche Welle (DW) Bantu, the gorilla who died in a zoo [...]
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Toward Animal Personhood: Why They Need Legal Rights
By Steven M. Wise – to Foreign Affairs Every year, humans inflict tremendous suffering upon other animals. Humans hunt them by the millions, farm them by the billions, and fish them by the trillions. In circuses, zoos, rodeos, puppy mills, fur farms, factory farms, marine parks, and laboratories, humans routinely abuse and slaughter animals. They […]
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Milan Starostik: They will miss you
When, just over 6 months ago, I was writing the article “A tribute of chimpanzees,” [...]
Orangutan flirts with freedom at the Kansas City Zoo
BY MATT CAMPBELL A female Bornean orangutan managed to get on top of the outdoor [...]
Rakker is 26 years old
Rakker and Simon (Sam) came from the Netherlands a decade ago. They were brought up [...]
Great Ape Project denounces a Spanish Royal Decree in the EU that opposes to CITES agreement
Great Ape Project has recently asked the European Parliament to repeal the Royal Decree 1333/2006 [...]
Zoos: Obsolete facilities from the XXI century
THE GUANTANAMO OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM by PEDRO POZAS TERRADOS Executive Director Proyecto Gran Simio (GAP Spain) [...]
Great Primates
Great Primates
Orangutan, gorilla, chimpanzee, bonobo and human. These are the five great primates, which are so defined because they do not have tails and are a little bit ahead of their cousins monkeys on the evolution scale. Popularly one calls all the primates monkeys, but the truth is that monkeys are the ones who have tails. Africa was the place where the first no-tailed primates appeared. Orangutan appeared between 12 and 15 millions years ago, and after came the gorillas (8 to 9 millions) and the humans (7 millions). Chimpanzees and bonobos must have appeared 5 or 6 millions years ago.
Sanctuaries
Affiliated Sanctuaries
GAP Project Brazil has four affiliated sanctuaries that houses more than 70 chimpanzees. All of them fulfill and offers more than the standards defined by Ibama of great primates’ enclosures, as long as the day-to-day routine showed that their needs go beyond the descriptions of the current Brazilian legislation.
The enclosures of the sanctuaries have an internal area with connection aisles and an external area with solariums, where the chimpanzees can play, run, socialize and exercise.
