PASA turns 20!
For 20 years, PASA has been racing against time to save endangered primate species From [...]
News
Answering the Many Questions About ‘The One and Only Ivan’
The new Disney+ film about a talented gorilla might leave you wondering about the real great ape that inspired the story. We have answers. By Amy Nicholson (The New York Times) Can a gorilla ape Banksy? That’s the setup of Disney’s new animal rights flick, “The One and Only Ivan,” inspired by the true story […]
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Chimpanzee Kanako. Chimpanzee Down Syndrome.
Original article – https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10329-020-00856-9 . Note by GAP: Kanako was diagnosed with trisomy 22, Down Syndrome [...]
In loving memory of Little Rock
Little Rock / 1969 (estimate) -2020 From Save the Chimps Sanctuary With great sadness we share the [...]
Orangutans Sandra and Jethro to be a loving couple at the sanctuary
From Center for Great Apes One of the most well-known orangutan residents at the Center is [...]
Why is cruelty to monkeys skyrocketing?
From PASA – Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance Last month, a lone baboon was found slowly [...]
PASA/Africa: Ten-Year Action Plan for Western Chimpanzees
From PASA – Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance Despite the tremendous challenges of this year, we’re [...]
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.
