Itai Hoffman is GAP Project’s Delegate in Israel
PEDRO POZAS TERRADOS, International President of the Great Ape Project, a world organization for the [...]
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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 suggest that it might have been able to walk on two feet, millions of years before the first humans appeared. The finding challenges the accepted idea that bipedal walking evolved much later in the ancestors of modern humans, and that […]
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Female chimpanzee, 15, is caught smoking like a pro at a Chinese zoo after ‘tourists threw a cigarette into her enclosure’
By TRACY YOU FOR MAILONLINE A video of a female chimpanzee smoking like a pro [...]
Health reports of chimpanzee Black at the zoo show he was treated due to stress and coprophagia
Health reports of chimpanzee Black, who was transferred from a zoo to Great Apes Sanctuary [...]
Almost human, by Alfred Fidjestøl: the story of Julius, the chimpanzee caught between two worlds
Book review by Alyson Baker* Almost human is the biography of Julius, a chimpanzee who [...]
Groundbreaking decision of Brazilian Judge for captive elephant
By Jaqueline B. Ramos* Last Friday, October 18, female elephant Ramba finally arrived at SEB [...]
Groundbreaking trafficking verdict in DR Congo!
From PASA – Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance We are excited to tell you about a [...]
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.
