Help Cozy and other chimps and primates
From PASA – Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance We cannot imagine the terrible suffering Cozy endured [...]
News
Happy Christmas and a lots of success in 2020
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year! Happy 2020. GAP Project – 20 years of struggle!
News
‘Property’ or ‘person’? How animal rights could open new moral frontier
By Eoin O’Carroll (The Christian Science Monitor) In a forested reserve in central Florida, Sandra is [...]
Sandra’s first three weeks at CGA
From Center for Great Apes – CGA Sandra continues to explore and investigate her new [...]
Black is happy! Watch the video
The approximate 50-year-old male chimpanzee Black was exploited in circuses when he was young and [...]
Ancient ape offers clues to evolution of two-legged walking
By Colin Barras (Nature) The fossilized remains of a newly discovered species of ancient ape [...]
Itai Hoffman is GAP Project’s Delegate in Israel
PEDRO POZAS TERRADOS, International President of the Great Ape Project, a world organization for the [...]
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.
