The closure of Ngamba Island – update on COVID-19
With the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic, we are navigating unchartered waters. The world is yet again [...]
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Coronavirus poses lethal threat to great apes, experts warn
The coronavirus pandemic could wipe out populations of chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, leading scientists have warned. Our closest living relatives, which share about 98% of human DNA, are known to be susceptible to catching respiratory diseases from people. Even pathogens producing mild symptoms in humans have been lethal to great apes in the past. The […]
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COVID-19 puts great apes and monkeys in peril
From PASA – Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance This is one of the hardest letters I’ve [...]
A Special Message from the Center for Great Apes
Dear CGA Members and Supporters, As the news each day presents updated information about the [...]
Note from Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary about COVID-19
With the progression of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the health, safety, and well-being of [...]
A Letter from the Executive Director: COVID-19
By Gorilla Doctors Staff on Sunday, March 15th, 2020 in Blog. Dear Friends and Supporters, [...]
The UN wants to protect these chimps’ unique culture
By Rob Picheta, CNN The unique culture of nut-cracking chimpanzees has been selected for conservation [...]
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.
