Legal standing for our no-human kin
By Alyson Baker* I stood next to Boris, a Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary caregiver, I [...]
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BBC reinventing the wheel
In recent days, a BBC video circulating on social networks features chimpanzees of an African Sanctuary walking on two feet and requesting food from their African keepers. BBC is known for producing extraordinary documentaries of wildlife and the animal world. It could not conclude that two-foot chimps would be a product of the torture they […]
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PASA/Africa: Help Captain
From PASA – Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance Captain, a young chimp, has endured constant abuse [...]
Argentine activists ask judge to send orangutan Sandra to Brazil, not to US
The Association of Animal Rights Officials and Lawyers (AFADA, in Spanish) asked Judge Elena Liberatori [...]
A big move
From Center for Great Apes With the recent arrival of chimpanzee Chloe, our elder chimp [...]
How Social Media Supports Animal Cruelty and the Illegal Pet Trade
Images of chimpanzees and other species appear cute, but they may actually depict animals in [...]
Some Monkeys Entered The Stone Age More Than 3,000 Years Ago
Brazilian tool-using monkeys have not just been engaging in the practice for far longer than [...]
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.
