(Human) Foolishness comes in different forms
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The Center for Great Apes: In memory of our beloved chimpanzee Jonah – 1996-2022
The Center for Great Apes is heartbroken to share the sad news that our beloved chimpanzee Jonah has died. Jonah has been under veterinary treatments for cardiac disease for the past four years after he had a sudden collapse in 2018 while playing with the females in his group. With the daily care, diagnostics, and […]
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South African fossils may rewrite history of human evolution
By Charles Q. Choi (Livescience.com) Fossils found at the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa may [...]
Book review – Chimpanzee Memoirs: stories of studying and saving our closest living relatives
By Alyson Baker* Who are the people who do chimpanzee research, rescue chimpanzees from appalling [...]
Chimpanzees have an exceptional ability to produce complex vocalizations
Paris, May 18, 2022 (AFP) – Chimpanzees have an exceptional ability to produce complex vocalizations, [...]
Argentina: Freedom for the chimpanzee Toti
At the beginning of the year, the Public Defender’s Office of the Province of Rio [...]
GAP Spain: Peter Singer arrives in Barcelona to present his new book (“Los Derechos de los Simios) and defend the creation of the Great Apes Law
Event “Derechos humanos y animales, dos días con Peter Singer” will take place on June [...]
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.
