On the edge of extinction: why western chimpanzees matter – photo essay
By Roberto García-Roa and Javier Ábalos, Photography by Roberto García-Roa / The Guardian – Jan 20, [...]
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Book “Adam the Ape”: friendship between a boy and a chimpanzee
The book “Adam the Ape”, by Wolfgang Wambach, tells the story of the friendship between the boy Kenny and the chimpanzee Adam, who is exploited in a circus. The two meet and discover, among many other things in common, the ability to communicate through sign language. From this friendship the author presents several issues related […]
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“When I’m 64”
Beautiful campaign by Save the Chimps Sanctuary @savethechimps in Florida, USA. Enjoy a heartwarming video [...]
Argentina: chimpanzee Toti’s case updated
The chimpanzee Toti’s case is old and in the beginning of this month there was [...]
Popular chimpanzees set hand-holding trends for the whole group
Apes copy the social customs of their influential peers – and their moms. By Jocelyn [...]
Center for Great Apes/USA: California Group update
From Center for Great Apes Sanctuary The seven former research chimpanzees who arrived at CGA [...]
Brazil is closer to becoming the 43rd country in the world to ban animal testing for cosmetics
Federal bill to ban cosmetics testing on animals clears Brazilian Senate Bill 70/2014, backed by [...]
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.
