Happy 50th Birthday Popi!
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In Memory of Dr. Carole Noon
From Save the Chimps Sanctuary Twelve years ago today, Save the Chimps’ founder, Dr. Carole Noon passed away of pancreatic cancer in her home on sanctuary property. She remains an inspiration to all the lives she touched and a motivator to carry on her important work. More than 300 chimpanzees have found the peaceful and […]
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Radio gorilla serves communities about COVID-19 prevention
By Jaqueline B. Ramos* What do gorillas have to do with the prevention of spread [...]
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By CrowdScience – BBC World Service Something strange happened 35 years ago, when primatologist Mike [...]
NASA’s Long and Controversial History with Animal Experimentation
By Tracy Keeling (One Green Planet) At the end of 2020, a controversial fact emerged [...]
In Loving Memory of Frieda – 1981-2021
From Save the Chimps Sanctuary It is with a heavy heart that we share that [...]
ALERT – Deadly virus attacks monkeys in Cameroon
From PASA – Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance Already under constant threat of rising COVID-19 cases [...]
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.
