From Center for Great Apes With the recent arrival of chimpanzee Chloe, our elder chimp “grandpas" Joe and Bo moved from their quarantine habitat over to the new expanded chimpanzee area. They made their way through the aerial trailways (about ¼ of a mile) rather quickly amidst many pant-hoots (and a
How Social Media Supports Animal Cruelty and the Illegal Pet Trade
Images of chimpanzees and other species appear cute, but they may actually depict animals in dangerous situations. Here’s how to tell what’s safe to share — and how that helps conservation. by Ashley Edes - The Revelator Whether you find it fascinating or disquieting, people recognize the inherent similarities
Some Monkeys Entered The Stone Age More Than 3,000 Years Ago
Brazilian tool-using monkeys have not just been engaging in the practice for far longer than we realized, they've also changed the way they use stone tools over time, going through recognizably different styles over thousands of years. Three years ago it was announced capuchin monkeys were using stone tools and
In a first, chimpanzees seen smashing and eating tortoises
By Douglas Main (National Geographic) Tortoises’ thick shells protect them from most predators. But our closest relatives have found a way to circumvent this defense: vigorously bashing them against trees. In a paper published today in the journal Scientific Reports, scientists report seven chimpanzees breaking open forest hinge-back tortoises in
Chimpanzees in the wild reduced to ‘forest ghettos’
by Marlowe HOOD Paris (AFP) | All four sub-species of the African primate are threatened with extinction, with at least one — the western chimpanzee — declining in number by more than 80 percent over three generations. Forty chimp experts from around the world — with a combined 300 years of field experience — issued…
What is magic without ape parts? Inside the illicit trade devastating Nigeria’s apes
Demand for ape body parts for spiritual purposes drives a complex and lucrative trade. BY ORJI SUNDAY* - Mongabay Series: Great Apes OHOFIA, Nigeria — The fading sunlight, half-coned and yellow, turns the evening murky. The crowing of roosters mingles with the rattling of motorbikes as farmers make their way home
United States: A CA University poisoned seven baby monkeys to death
From NEAVS - New England Anti-Vivisection Society They didn’t have a chance. Seven baby monkeys, one only a day old, were poisoned and died at the primate lab located at the University of California, Davis. The babies were only doing what comes naturally, nursing from their mothers. Due to
From Center for Great Apes (CGA) One year ago, we picked up two senior male chimpanzees from a small unaccredited zoo in Oklahoma that was closing down. Both boys were kept alone in different cages after each of their female companions died years earlier. And they had quite a history!
The male chimpanzee Guga was born in a commercial breeding place in Paraná, Brazil, in 1999. When he was still a baby, he was "adopted" by a human family and inspired these people to start work that, over 20 years, helped rescue more than a hundred chimpanzees victims of mistreatment and perpetuate
GAP Brazil: Black spoke! And human Justice heard him
Do not worry. It's not fake news. Chimpanzees, like all living humans, have a way of expressing their feelings and desires. Chimpanzees get very close to humans in communicating their emotions and state of mind. We have been spending time with them for the last 20 years and can attest this
GAP Brazil: Chimpanzee Black adapts very well to his new life in a sanctuary
Male 50-year-old chimpanzee Black chimpanzee was transferred from a zoo to the Great Apes Sanctuary of Sorocaba, São Paulo, affiliated to GAP Project, 15 days ago, and his adaptation could not be better. In addition to being very healthy, he is relaxed and curious with other residents, an indicator that
GAP Brazil: Chimpanzee Black is transferred to the Great Apes Sanctuary of Sorocaba
After 15 years of struggle and a lot of negotiations, male chimpanzee Black, aged approximately 50 years old, was finally transferred from the zoo "Quinzinho de Barros", in Sorocaba, São Paulo state (SP), Brazil, to the Great Apes Sanctuary in the same city, a space affiliated to the GAP Project . Black's
Brazil, São Paulo: Doria’s dilemma – “Zoo, close or privatize?”
An announcement made by João Dória, state Governor for São Paulo, published a few days ago by Brazilian press indicates that a project is being set up to privatize the Botanical Garden, which has an annual deficit of four million Brazilian Reais, joining the São Paulo
Africa: Disease outbreak strikes sanctuary. You can help save the life of chimpanzees
From PASA - Pan African Sanctuary Alliance A deadly respiratory infection has swept through the chimpanzee social groups at Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary, a PASA member in Kenya. Within a week, almost every one of the sanctuary’s 39 rescued and orphaned chimpanzees became sick. It’s the worst disease outbreak the
Indonesia: An endangered orangutan was shot 74 times. She’s blind but survived — her baby did not.
By Angela Fritz (The Washington Post) She was probably lounging in the treetops, where Sumatran orangutans spend almost all of their time, with her month-old baby in tow. She might have been breast-feeding. Little is known about how the pair found themselves in the tragic situation, but at some point,
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