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posted in 16 Mar 2012
Citizen Diana, a true story
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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posted in 12 Mar 2012
Project GAP supports the book: Legal Personality of the Great Apes
São Paulo, Brazil: non-human beings are not commodities, but holders of subjective rights. In general this is the main argument advocated and demonstrated by Alfredo Domingues Migliore in the book "Legal Personality of the Great Apes." The book is the result of years of study and
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posted in 09 Mar 2012
Humans, gorillas more alike than previously thought, say scientists
By Nora Doyle-Burr, Christian Science Monitor, March 9, 2012Chimpanzees are humans nearest genetic relatives, but gorillas come in at a close second, according to a recent study. For the first time, scientists have successfully sequenced the genome of a gorilla. The research team, led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger
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posted in 08 Mar 2012
Id Amin: a predictable death
Belo Horizonte Zoo Months ago we had criticized the initiative of the Belo Horizonte Zoo to import two young gorillas, born in a zoo from John Aspinall Foundation, in England - at a cost of over half a million dollars to put them together with a gorilla who had no
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posted in 08 Mar 2012
The Kingdom of Alejandra
It is difficult to understand how the howler monkeys, very common in our Atlantic Forest, reach so far in the south, in the hills of Cordoba, Argentina. But the Primate Center, located just over 100 km from the city of Cordoba, is home for 11 groups of howler monkeys Alouatta caraya,
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posted in 29 Feb 2012
Hulk is waiting for corneal transplant
SOROCABA SANCTUARYOn February 25, a multidisciplinary team coordinated by Dr. Michael Vaudano, Assistant Coordinator of the GAP Project for Latin America, was assembled to examine chimpanzee Hulk, after more than two years of the recovery of one of his eyes’ vision.The same team of the first operation, conducted by
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posted in 15 Feb 2012
Chimpanzees from Israel are about to be liberated to continue the trip to Brazilian sanctuary
February, 15, 2012 – São Paulo:After a long trip which began in Israel, chimpanzees Judy and Gena (10 and 20 years old) arrived today early in the morning to São Paulo International Airport. They were accompanied by an Israeli veterinarian. At this moment the team that will conduct the
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posted in 15 Feb 2012
Judge dismisses PETA´s case against Seaworld
The Nonhuman Rights Project today issued the following press release: Feb 8th, 2012: Seventy-two hours after hearing oral argument on SeaWorld’s Motion to Dismiss PETA’s case, the Federal Court in San Diego dismissed PETA’s claims that the plaintiff orcas were enslaved within the meaning of
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posted in 14 Feb 2012
Chimpanzees from Israel are in their way to GAP Brazilian affiliated sanctuary
February, 14, 2012 – São Paulo: After months of negotiation between Brazilian and Israeli organizations, female chimpanzees Judy and Gena finally left Israel and arrive in Brazil tomorrow morning, where they will live at GAP Brazilian affiliated sanctuary of Paraná, sponsored by Anami Conservationist Institute. Judy and Gena live
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posted in 09 Feb 2012
Historic Day for SeaWorld Orcas in Court
It was a landmark day in the U.S. District Court in San Diego today. For the first time ever, a federal court is considering whether or not the 13th Amendment, which prohibits slavery, applies to five orcas—Tilikum, Katina, Kasatka, Ulises and Corky—who are now incarcerated
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posted in 09 Feb 2012
Historic Day for SeaWorld Orcas in Court
It was a landmark day in the U.S. District Court in San Diego today. For the first time ever, a federal court is considering whether or not the 13th Amendment, which prohibits slavery, applies to five orcas—Tilikum, Katina, Kasatka, Ulises and Corky—who are now incarcerated
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posted in 02 Feb 2012
Brazilian air company TAM is denounced for transport of animals to medical experimentation
TRANSPORT OF CAPUCHIN MONKEYS TO USAEnglish organization BUAV (British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection), which inspects several airline companies that accept to transport animals to different locations under bad conditions, denounced Brazilian company TAM last January 30, for the transportation of capuchin monkeys to Nebraska University, in United States.Probably
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posted in 01 Feb 2012
50 thousand signatures claiming to USA Government to protect chimpanzees
The same organizations that intimated US Fish and Wildlife Service to change, definitely, the conservation status of chimpanzees in United States insist again on a position, because the Government had given the date of January 30 to give a final answer and nothing was decided.This time the arguments were sent
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posted in 24 Jan 2012
Adoption of orphan chimpanzees in the wild
By Serge K. Soiret, GAP correspondent in West Africa, from Ivory Coast In chimpanzees’ lives, the adoption of an orphan child is a usual practice. The child is adopted by a dominant female or male dominant in case the real mother is dead. Walking in the forest, the mother
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posted in 28 Dec 2011
Chimpanzee Said to Be Cheetah in Tarzan Films Has Died
By DAVE ITZKOFF (New York Times)An animal sanctuary in Florida has announced the death of a chimpanzee it says was Cheetah, one of the most famous animal stars of the 1930s, who appeared with Johnny Weissmuller in Depression-era adventure films like “Tarzan the Ape Man” and “
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