In memory of Tarzan
From Save the Chimps Sanctuary We announce with heavy hearts the passing of our beloved [...]
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PASA/Africa: One-legged chimp saved!
From PASA – Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance The stars were shining in the Congolese sky, and Yombe, one of the oldest chimpanzees at HELP Congo, who had lost a leg in a poacher’s trap as a baby, was still sleeping soundly. Yves, Bienvenu, Ntadi, and Sylveres, HELP Congo’s animal care staff, pulled themselves from their beds […]
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Almost chimpanzee, by Jon Cohen, an extensive overview of human/chimp relationships
Book review by Alyson Baker* In 1925, the American psychologist and primatologist Robert Yerkes published his [...]
The Manifesto: Chimpanzees Are Living Human Fossils
A few days ago a 15-page paper was published in the magazine Human Evolution, Vol. [...]
GAP Brazil: Chimpanzee Black has a mate in the Great Apes Sanctuary of Sorocaba/SP
Four months after the transfer from the city zoo to the Great Apes Sanctuary of [...]
BBC reinventing the wheel
In recent days, a BBC video circulating on social networks features chimpanzees of an African [...]
Legal standing for our no-human kin
By Alyson Baker* I stood next to Boris, a Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary caregiver, I [...]
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.
