Happy 57th Birthday to Our Oldest Resident – Emily!
From Save the Chimps Sanctuary A big happy birthday pant-hoot to Emily! At the estimated [...]
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A note from Founder Patti… and Knuckles
From Center for Great Apes (CGA) When I first thought of a sanctuary for one orangutan (Pongo) and one chimpanzee (Grub) who I volunteered to care for in the early 1990s… I had no idea what was involved, or even how to start it! I was unbelievably naive thinking this would be easy. However step by step, with the […]
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Gorillas test positive for COVID 19 in North American zoo
This weekend, the Atlanta Zoo, in the United States, reported that 13 individuals from the [...]
August 19th – International Orangutan Day
Today International Orangutan Day is celebrated. But other than celebration for this no majestic and [...]
Chronology – Great Apes evolving
On the evolutionary scale, man (Homo sapiens) is one of five species of great apes. [...]
Center for Great Apes (USA): New chimpanzees residents
Six charming chimpanzees arrived here recently from Missouri. They lived in Festus at a facility [...]
Africa: Third COVID Wave Threatens Chimps
From PASA – Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance A devastating third wave of COVID in Sierra [...]
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.
