Love beckons for recovering monkey in chimp refuge
Marcelino is calling to her, but Cecilia cannot be with him. Not yet. He may be handsome, but she has suffered a lot and isn't ready for a relationship. This is not a soap opera. It is just the way things go in a Brazilian refuge for abused and depressed
It is estimated that she was born in Africa in 1960. In the first record, in the United States, she appeared as a resident for 22 years at the Oklahoma Institute of Primate Studies, where she must have learned to communicate by signals. In 1982, she was sent to the Medical Torture Center
Chantek, the orangutan who used sign language, dies at 39
An orangutan who was one of the first apes to learn sign language has died in Atlanta, Georgia, aged 39. Chantek lived with an anthropologist in Tennessee for about nine years and learned to clean his room, make and use tools and memorise the route to a fast-food restaurant. He spent
Now that I have just read this excellent article by the biologist Fernando Reinach, in newspaper O Estado de São Paulo, last July 29, which is reproduced here, I understand how the Great Apes are smart in their survival. Something I did not understand was the reason why Carol, Guga,
Argentine judge refuses to transfer orangutan Sandra to Great Apes Sanctuary of Sorocaba, Brazil
After several months of management, and in view of the documentation required for the transfer of the orangutan Sandra to the Great Primates Sanctuary of Sorocaba (Brazil), on July 10, 2017, Dr. Elena Liberatori, the Judge of Litigation, Administrative and Tax No. 4 of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (Argentina), "momentarily" rejected
Nemley Jr.’s Life Was Saved in a Daring Raid. Why Did He Die Just a Few Months Later?
Dear friends, I wrote to you a few months ago about Nemley Jr., a baby chimpanzee in Ivory Coast. After being confiscated from an international smuggling ring because of the BBC’s undercover operation, he was sent to a dilapidated, underfunded city zoo. The zoo still hasn’t fully recovered
By Paul Rincon (Science Editor - BBC News) The greater strength of chimpanzees, relative to humans, may have been explained by American scientists. A study suggests the difference is mostly due to a higher proportion in chimps of a muscle fibre type involved in powerful, rapid movements. The findings do
We need to talk about spending time with our families in zoos…
The force of events brings me back to this subject: why, in 2017, do we still take our families to spend a good time in zoos? I was struck by the news of the death of a keeper (one more) by one of the tigers she used to take care of
IBM Issues Public Statement Severing Ties With New York Blood Center Over Chimp Abandonment
By Donny Moss (Their Turn) In a statement posted on its website, IBM announced that it has severed all ties with the NY Blood Center on account of the organization’s decision to abandon 66 chimpanzees with no food or water on islands in Liberia. IBM joins NYBC’s other long
PASA – NIGERIA, AFRICA: Help rebuild Drill Ranch with donations
Drill Ranch, a pioneering PASA member wildlife center in Nigeria, cares for over 500 extremely endangered drill monkeys and 31 chimpanzees. At best of times, providing excellent care to so many animals in such a difficult country is daunting. Seven Enclosures Were Destroyed A tragedy has laid waste to Drill Ranch. Two
Last Saturday (April 29), chimpanzee Cecilia, released through a Habeas Corpus filed by the NGO AFADA (an organization of lawyers who defend animal rights in Argentina) was visited by Pablo Buompadre, author of the HC which Judge Dr. María Alejandra Mauricio fully accepted and allowed her release from a life
The 20-year-old chimpanzee Cecília arrived on April 5 at the Great Apes Sanctuary of Sorocaba, affiliated to GAP Project, after two days of a journey that began in Mendoza, Argentina, where she had been living alone in a cement cage in the city's zoo and exposed to the public. Cecilia's
Chimpanzee Cecilia Finds Sanctuary: An Interview with GAP Brazil
By Lauren Choplin (NhRP blog) In November of 2016, an Argentine judge issued a ruling that has changed the life of a single chimpanzee—and could help do the same for other autonomous nonhuman animals. Thanks to litigation brought by an Argentine organization (AFADA) and modeled on the NhRP’s habeas
GAP Mexico: A Critique of Attacks on Captive Animals
By Francel De la Huerta, Alejandra Estrada and Paulina Bermúdez (GAP Mexico) On the first trimester of the present year, during february and march, a terrible phenomenon has occurred in zoos around the world. It´s difficult to ignore the fatal attacks that captive animals living in these places
Chimpanzee Cecilia back to nature in Brazil after misery of a jail-like zoo
efe-epa / By Carlos Meneses Sanchez Sao Paulo The chimpanzee Cecilia never knew what it was like to put her feet on the grass, she only knew the cement floor of the Argentine zoo where she was born 20 years ago. Today she breathes the fresh air of a Brazilian sanctuary surrounded
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