
Scientist and primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh joins the Great Ape Project
January 12, 2021 – Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Director of Project Kanzi, the bonobo who learned the [...]
From PASA – Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance Young chimps need space to play. Especially Julius, the two-year-old chimp with only one arm. But because Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary recently rescued a shockingly high number of 23 orphans from the cruel wildlife trade, the nursery where Julius plays is bursting at the seams. Julius needs a safe enclosure to recover […]
January 12, 2021 – Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Director of Project Kanzi, the bonobo who learned the [...]
Save the Chimps Sanctuary: In Loving Memory of Norene and Melissa With great sadness, we [...]
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Conakry (AFP), Nov 26, 2020 A dwindling tribe of chimpanzees in Guinea that leapt to [...]
From Center for Great Apes In this time of uncertainty, there is always hope – [...]
From PASA – Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance Do you remember Captain? As an infant, his [...]
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.
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.