After 11 years in a cage, Captain is free!
From PASA – Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance We found Captain alone in a filthy wooden [...]
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July 14th: World Chimpanzee Day
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We’ve already talked about this subject and it’s always good to reinforce it. The way [...]
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By Save the Chimps Sanctuary Over a year ago we put strict protocols in place [...]
Rest In Peace, Dr. Miguel Vaudano
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Cobby, oldest male chimp in a U.S. zoo, dies at 63
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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.
