After 40 years surrounded by concrete, Boy walks on the grass
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY To forbid a chimpanzee to walk on grass throughout his life is a crime. Boy – a 40 year-old chimpanzee, captured in Africa when he was a baby – lived 15 terrible years in a 6 square meter cage – was the first of the group of ten chimpanzees
AFRICAN GREY PARROT It is hard to believe that these things still happen. It is not only in Brazil that birds’ trafficking continues to be intense. In Africa it is a genocide that extinguishes a lot of species. This week authorities from CameroonRepublic delivered to the LimbeWildlifeCenter
Scottish zoo produces 1º documentary shot exclusively by chimpanzees
A British TV production agency gave special cameras to chimpanzees to produce the first video shot exclusively by the great apes, in a project called The Chimpcam. During 18 months, eleven chimpanzees of Edinburgh Zoo, in Scotland, shot one another with cameras installed inside special boxes, for the protection of the
The excellent article from this month National Geographic Magazine (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/02/congo-chimps/foer-text/1), written by Joshua Foer about the wild chimpanzees in Congo, raised some curious data founded with his discoveries.The social behavior and the group activities are not news anymore. But the way this particular group
Switzerland does referendum about lawyers for animals
Considering the abuses against company and production animals, the Government of Switzerland will do, on March, a referendum defending that every state of the country define a lawyer to defend animals.Recently, according to BBC, the Constitution was changed to guarantee the protection of the fauna dignity and a law
Center for Great Apes E-news / January 2010 Brrrrrr!!! Even though the rest of the nation is much colder this week than Wauchula, the cold weather is big news for us in Florida. For the first time in decades, we’ve had over a week of freezing nights
GREAT APE TRUST SANCTUARY Matata is the last bonobo, born at African jungle, who entered United States. The others were born there in captivity. Mata is the adoptive mother of Kanzi, the bonobo who has been surprising the world and the scientists due to his ability to communicate through lexigrams
The case of the Habeas Corpus in favor of chimpanzee Jimmy, who lives alone for years in a Brazilian zoo, is being broadcasted internationally by New Tang Dinasty Television.Watch here (in English) - Brazilian Animal Rights Groups Wants Chimp Freed Read more:December 17, 2009: Habeas Corpus for a zoo
DNA test can be requested On Sarasota city, in Florida, United States, the courthouses are facing a different demand in the last few days due to the judicial request for the guard of a 11-month year old baby chimpanzee called Eli. The baby was supposedly robbed and sold to
New Habeas Corpus in favor of Jimmy is ordered in Rio de Janeiro state
JIMMY CASE Professor Dr. Heron Santana and a group of lawyers and public attorneys, together with the most renowned world scientists of Anthropology, Philosofy and Primatology, ordered, last January 19, in Rio de Janeiro Justice Tribunal (TJRJ), a new Habeas Corpus in favor of chimpanzee Jimmy, who lives isolated for years
SCIENTIFIC WORK QUESTIONS A scientific work published this month at Spanish Primatology Association Magazine, signed by two Brazilian biologists, criticizes the Brazilian rules to maintain great primates in cages in zoos, comparing them to the North American and European rules and to the standards adopted at GAP Sanctuary in Sorocaba.
USA: 141 votes in favor of The Great Ape Protection Act
R&R Project R&R Project, together with other organizations, are working intensely since the beginning of the year to be succeed in the approval, by North-American Congress, of the GAP Act – The Great Ape Protection Act. It is a bill proposal that guarantees the retirement of
SOROCABA SANCTUARY Female lion Carol, who arrived four months ago from a circus from Espírito Santo together with his mother, Sarita, and the male Chimarrão, has given birth to two baby lions last Tuesday. Unfortunately only one of them survived. Carol is young, it was
We have already see them using tools of different ways all over African continent – cutting nuts with rocks to take out their meat, taking out the leaves of a branch to get ants, drinking water through a leaf or even turning the branches of a tree into lances, which
Chimpanzees are able to predict the behavior of the fire
Observation work was made at Senegal in 2006 and indicates that the animals had already made their first step towards fire control. The next steps would evolve the ability to contain it adding or removing fuel materials and the ability to generate it. After the discovery that the chimpanzees from Senegal
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