A recent work signed by several primatologists of University of St. Andrews, in UK, published in the journal Current Biology, shows how a group of free-living chimpanzees in the Budongo Forest, Uganda, developed a language of gestures, to communicate between them. Primatologists who carried out this work came to develop
Sold into extinction: great apes betrayed by protectors
Commentary By: Daniel StilesMongabay.org Special Reporting Assignment Fellow In what appears to be corruption in high places, the international body charged with protecting endangered species has turned a blind eye to massive illegal trade of endangered Great Apes. This was my distinct impression on reading the Great Apes report
South Africa: Nikki and Amadeus are still in danger
The latest information coming from Eden Sanctuary, in South Africa, indicate that PASA - Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance sent a representative to inspect the site and know the details of the attack of chimpanzees to a handler, as well as avoid a possible euthanasia of those innocent chimpanzees . PASA sent
Scientists Decode Meaning Of Chimpanzee Gestures For The First Time
Image: Chimpanzees enjoy the sun at Gut Aiderbichl's Sanctuary for Traumatized Chimpanzees and Other Primates in Gaenserndorf, Austria, about 30 miles northeast of Vienna, Sept. 14, 2011. Reuters By Kukil Bora@KukilBoraon July 05 2014 3:32 AM Chimpanzees, the closest living relatives of humans, have their own way of communication, which includes various gestures. A team
The moral bankruptcy of the city of Belo Horizonte
The Municipality of Belo Horizonte city, in Brazil, has provided 42,000 dollars for the year 2014 to care for abandoned dogs and cats, estimated at 8,000 individuals in the city. Meanwhile the same Mayor, who recognizes that the city cannot even sustain a kennel to care for pets, spends millions to bring gorillas
Balance 2013: The numbers are terrifying. They show the destruction of the habitats of the largest wild species of the planet, in Africa and Asia, and the money illegal trade in wildlife and timber products generate. Between June 23 and 27, members of the UN Environmental First Assembly met in Nairobi, Africa, and
I wonder what makes us so afraid of our proximity to apes. Maybe we are afraid to stay in front of our animality. There are four great apes: chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans. Chimpanzees and bonobos are separated from us with only 1% of the genome. We can even exchange blood
Belo Horizonte Zoo continues at the limit of irresponsability
We do not know how the Mayor of Belo Horizonte considers that its zoo is a good postcard of his management. The news that have been coming from there in the last few months are tragic and negative. The latest now is that the death of the giraffe Zola, confirmed
Every day, more often, we reach information about the capacity and intelligence of chimpanzees to understand and solve problems posed in front of them, as humans do. In a latest discovery of Japanese scientists, working with a couple of chimpanzees and humans on the game developed in 1994 by Nobel Economics
A Universal Declaration of the Rights of Great Apes
Who looks more like a Human Person: Spanish bank Santander or a Chimp? This amazing and unusual question was asked at an event in the room Clara Campoamor , in the Chamber of Deputies of Spain last June, 8th . The challenge consisted in a manifest read by philosopher and poet Jorge
The sounds come from different directions. A shrill sound of a chimpanzee and the response of others that denote fear. Others are more strident in many voices and of a very peculiar kind. In the night the sound are different: the roar of many big cats. Toto, newcomer chimpanzee to
An investigating judge of Río Negro, Argentina, Dr. Ruben D. Norry, on June9, facing the application of an Habeas Corpus in favor of chimpanzee Toti - who is captive in Bubalcó Zoo - agreed to send the request to a Court consisting of five judges, who must determine whether
Sad, not to call it absurd and incompetent. Loro Parque is a large zoo in Spain, which cares little for the mental health of the animals that it hosts. As a proof of its incompetence, we will describe what happened days ago. According to the direction of the Zoo, some
Two weeks ago, a team of GAP Sanctuary in Sorocaba ended with perfection a rescue in Leme Zoo, countryside of São Paulo, which was being disabled. Two lionesses, named Isa and Salena, and chimpanzee Toto were anesthetized, placed in boxes and driven by our truck at their new destination.
Thirty-five years ago, a female chimpanzee—identified only as "4X0139"—was intentionally infected with the hepatitis B virus by experimenters. She was then infected with HIV, hepatitis C, and other illnesses and has been imprisoned in a laboratory for use in traumatic experiments in the decades since. Recently, in an
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