A study to be published this weekend in Nature magazine proves that the difference between chimpanzees, bonobos and sapiens (men) are practically nonexistent. Moreover, the difference between bonobos and chimpanzees can reach 0.4%, which is practically negligible. The difference between chimpanzees, bonobos and sapiens can reach 1.3%. If we consider that between
Every morning at 9:30am on the days I am in the sanctuary, I put three bottles of hot soup in the window of the enclosure of chimpanzees Jango and Junior. Then I give two bottles for Billy and enter the open air enclosure of Luke and deliver the last
Doctoral Programme of Law and Animals at University of Basel
Call for Applications: “Law and Animals: Ethics at Crossroads” – Doctoral Programme at the Law School of the University of Basel, 2012-2015“Law and animals”: Cutting-Edge Legal ResearchThe law school launches the doctoral programme “Law and Animals: Ethics at Crossroads”. “Law and
Some 52 years ago or more, a baby girl was born in the forests of Sierra Leone, Africa. As Jane Goodall was taking her first pioneering steps into the world of chimpanzees, this little girl was taking her own first steps in her forest home. As Ham the chimpanzee rocketed into
When a TV crew goes to GAP Sanctuary Sorocaba to record the lives of the guests and interview us about the project, we have to sign, for us and for the chimpanzees, a document of allowance of image rights. In our case, there is no cost. However, it could be
Two weeks ago, a team from an Argentinean TV spent two days at Great Apes and Cats Sanctuary of Sorocaba, affiliated to GAP Project, filming a long report to be aired, for the first time, in our neighbor country. The TV crew came along with Alejandra Juarez, representative of
by Alejandra Juarez, Cordoba, ArgentinaAfter years working with animals, especially primates, the large and small ones, every day you can get surprised and learn new things. In my case, I almost never go out or travel so far… The fact to be able to keep the Carayás
About a year ago, a virtual chimp, called Caesar, surprised the world when he said NO and headed a rebellion that freed dozens of great apes kept in captivity in a center for experimentation and in a zoo at United States. He was the main star of the movie &
Pioneering efforts of the Public Ministry in Brazil
Days ago we received a visit at GAP Sanctuary of Sorocaba of two prosecutors of Sao Paulo, of an environmental area. The Public Ministry of São Paulo, in a pioneering initiative, created the Task Force to Combat Environmental Crime and Irregular Installment Urban Land. It is the
Orca Morgan: European Parliament accepts GAP´s denounce
GAP Project Spain sent, a few weeks ago, a request for the European Parliament asking for an investigation about the case of orca Morgan, who was sent by the Dutch Government to a water park in Spain, ignoring the claiming of scientists and activists for Morgan´s release
Next April 18 will it will complete 51 years of the first night I had to sleep on the cold floor of a prison. I was 21. The prison was the Cabaña Fortress in Havana, Cuba, which was then ruled by a sinister character: Ernesto "Che" Guevara. That night,
INTEGRATION IN PARANÁ SANCTUARYOmega was born in Africa and when he was a baby was taken to Lebanon, where he worked in a bar, serving water to hookah. When he became a teenager, was locked in a cage in a lost zoo at a village in the countryside. Omega
SOROCABA SANCTUARY For more than six months we have worked every day at the Sanctuary to approximate Jimmy with other chimpanzees. First with Samantha, and then with her two daughters, Sofia, three years old, and Sara, two. First of all, we should know the character of Jimmy, his mental disorders
Chimpanzees in the wild in Africa, for the most part, already had contact with humans and in some areas they live with them in a delicate balance, which can quickly disappear. There is an area in the Republic of Congo, called Triangle Goualougo, with approximately 150,000 hectares, where chimps, gorillas and
Diana was a chimpanzee who lived with humans as part of a family for 16 years. Andres, a human child of same age, was raised together with her. They shared their games, adventures, desires and anxieties. The human society ended up locking her in a zoo and did not allow her
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