Glimpses of Fatherhood in Non-Pair-Bonding Chimps
Although they have no way of identifying their biological fathers, male chimpanzees form intimate bonds [...]
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GAP Brazil: Tata and Milan, child pranks
Peter, Tata and their two sons Miguel and Milan form one of the chimpanzee families that live in the Great Apes Sanctuary of Sorocaba. Milan is the youngest, he is 4 years old, and does the pranks that any child his age, human or chimpanzee, does. Likewise, his mother, Tata, always protects him. On Sunday, […]
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Add Ham & Enos to the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
From Save the Chimps Jan 31, 2021 marks the 60th anniversary of Ham’s flight into [...]
Help Lucie celebrate 20 years wild and free!
From PASA – Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance Lucie was a tiny one-month-old chimpanzee clinging to [...]
2019 Was a Record Year for Ocean Temperatures, Data Show
By Kendra Pierre-Louis (The New York Times) Last year was the warmest year on record [...]
GAP Brazil: Sanctuary offers to welcome surviving chimpanzees of German zoo fire
In the face of the unprecedented tragedy at the Krefeld Zoo, in Germany, on the [...]
GAP Spain condemns the fire that occurred in the Krefeld Zoo, Germany, where eight great apes have died
From GAP Spain 2020 begins with a new tragedy at the Krefeld Zoo, located west [...]
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.
