In memory of Dr. Carole Noon (1949-2009)
Thirteen years ago today, Save the Chimps’ founder, Dr. Carole Noon passed away of pancreatic [...]
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“The Chimpanzee Whisperer”, by Stany Nyandwi with David Blisset: “I am riding in their truck”
By Alyson Baker* “The Chimpanzee Whisperer” is the memoir of Stany Nyandwi. Looking back over 50 years, we read of his home country, Burundi, a paradise with a bleak colonial history, being turned into “… a land of broken hearts” through a tribal civil war. We read of Stany’s love for his family, wrenched apart […]
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New book by Paula Casal and Peter Singer: “The Rights of Apes” (Los Derechos de los Simios)
The new book by philosophers Paula Casal and Peter Singer, “The Rights of Apes” (Los [...]
#FreeTommy – Each chimpanzee is an individual who has the right to live a free and fulfilling life
By Alyson Baker* In the late 1980s I saw the movie Project X, starring Matthew [...]
Documentary “Persona no humana” begins its premiere at festivals and cinemas
April 15, 2022.- The documentary film “Persona no humana, in which GAP Project has had [...]
Sky after 30 years: a brief biography of three biomedical research chimpanzees in Japan
Many chimpanzees were captured in Africa to be guinea pigs in biomedical laboratories in the [...]
World Biological Corridor has defined kilometer zero for chimpanzees
By GAP Project Spain The International Committee of the World Biological Corridor (CICBM) declared as the [...]
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.
