COVID-19: End the wildlife trade
From PASA – Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance Do you know about the commercial wildlife trade? [...]
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From Center for Great Apes (CGA) In the topsy-turvy world that we live in today it’s no wonder our seasons are mixed up. In a normal year the old saying is “March in like a lion and out like a lamb” coordinating with spring. Did we even have a spring this year? At the Center […]
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Humans can tell what chimps are saying… sort of
Paris (AFP) Do you speak chimp? They are among our closest relatives in the animal [...]
Happy Father’s Day to Humans and Apes!
From Center for Great Apes (CGA) In June around Father’s Day, we like to acknowledge [...]
Rafiki, Uganda’s rare silverback mountain gorilla, killed by hunters
One of Uganda’s best known mountain gorillas, Rafiki, has been killed. Four men have been [...]
PGS launches book “Great Apes and their Basic Rights”
On December 2019, to celebrate its 20th anniversary, GAP Project Spain – PGS launched the [...]
During our darkest time, they never give up
From PASA – Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance I want to take a moment to shine [...]
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.
