USA: Eight new sanctuary residents
From the Center for Great Apes (CGA) Ewok, Josh, Billy, Mystery, Sabina, Maude, Shauri Ya [...]
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Chimpanzees in Kant’s Moral Landscape
By Alyson Baker* Why do we treat others ethically? Why must we treat others ethically? According to the moral framework of one of the major figures of the Enlightenment, Immanual Kant, we must always choose to act towards others as though they were ends-in-themselves, and not as a means for us to achieve our own […]
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Rest in Peace, Knuckles 1999 – 2021
By Patti Ragan, from Center for Great Apes Losing one of our great ape residents [...]
COP26 and Great Apes
World leaders are gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, since October 31 at COP26, the United Nations [...]
On chimpanzee behavior
From Save the Chimps With humans sharing approximately 98.8% of our DNA with chimpanzees, it’s [...]
A note from Founder Patti… and Knuckles
From Center for Great Apes (CGA) When I first thought of a sanctuary for one orangutan [...]
Happy 57th Birthday to Our Oldest Resident – Emily!
From Save the Chimps Sanctuary A big happy birthday pant-hoot to Emily! At the estimated [...]
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.
