Over the last few months researchers of Jane Goodall Institute at the GombeStreamResearchCenter (center for the studies of wild population of great primates at GombeNational Park, in Tanzanie) have documented the birth of five new chimpanzee babies. The institute needs your help to name two of the babies. Normally,
GAP Project Spain asks for the ban of Ringling Circus in the country
CIRCUSES WITHOUT ANIMALS Circus Ringling Bros is one of the most known circuses with animals in the world. Recently, activists from NGO PETA showed to worldwide television images achieved with hide cameras of how the keepers beat the elephants before the performances. Circus Ringling Bros from USA planned a trip
Chimpanzee’s “autobiography” competes to British literature award
'Me Cheeta' tells a supposed story life of the “actress” of Tarzan. The book competes to Booker Prize with renowned writers A supposed autobiography of a movie chimpanzee is among the candidates of the most prestigious British literature award. "Me Cheeta" is one of the thirteen
Article published at Veja Magazine, July 29 Different from what has been thought, chimpanzees yields to Aids The thesis accepted until nowadays that chimpanzees, the closest human relatives, do not develop diseases when they are infected by virus HIV has been denied. In fact they get ill and present similar symptoms
Fran Vaz Gabon – Gorilla Project August, 5th, 2009: Six young gorillas, rescued from the illegal bush meat trade, have begun new independent lives on a lagoon island just outside LoangoNational Park in Gabon. Staff at the Société de Conservation et Développement (SCD) are
R&R Project, USA Important Hollywood stars have been supporting the signature campaign in favor of the Great Ape Protection Act (HR1326), which is at North American Congress waiting ti be approved. The most recent episode was stared by actress Emily Deschanel, from the show Bones, who appealed in
CENTER FOR GREAT APES We stayed for a few minutes one looking to the other. Only orangutans have the attitude of looking deeply the unknown human, who is outside the fence. They think this one could have been one of the responsible for them to live in captivity. The magnificence
Ivory Coast, Africa: Little Fanta and her friends in the zoo (WITH VIDEO)
By Serge K. Soiret, GAP correspondent in Africa In 2006, a young female chimpanzee called Fanta belonged to a man who lived in Taï Park. One day a group of students who was doing a research in the park proposed him to send her to Abidjan Zoo, so she
From BBC The discovery comes from experiments showing that an infant chimpanzee prefers to listen to consonant music over dissonant music. That suggests the apes are born with an innate appreciation of pleasant sounds, say scientists in the journal Primates. Until now, this was thought to be a universal human
From BBC The discovery comes from experiments showing that an infant chimpanzee prefers to listen to consonant music over dissonant music. That suggests the apes are born with an innate appreciation of pleasant sounds, say scientists in the journal Primates. Until now, this was thought to be a universal human
From BBC The discovery comes from experiments showing that an infant chimpanzee prefers to listen to consonant music over dissonant music. That suggests the apes are born with an innate appreciation of pleasant sounds, say scientists in the journal Primates. Until now, this was thought to be a universal human
At Virunga Mountains The threat now is not exactly of the humans who hunt them. The problem consists on the fires that sprawl through the triple line among Uganda, Rwanda and Congo, which force the Mountain Gorillas to run away to Congo. The lack of water, due to an uncommon
LIMBE SANCTUARY, AFRICA An operation developed together by Cameroon Republic Environmental Department and Limbe Sanctuary rescued three two-year old baby chimps in a wood extraction camp in the countryside of Cameroon. The baby chimps were under control of an Italian man, who had been arrested by the authorities.Vet of
GAP Project will participate next Sunday, July 26, of the show “The Big Questions”, chaired by Nikcy Campbell and broadcasted on BBC1. The show goes out live at 10am and looks at different topics about modern ethical questions. GAP was invited to debate the theme “Should we give
PRE-ANNOUNCED TRAGEDY Maybe Alemão had the desire to alert, with his death, all who did not allow him to have a life with his equals at GAP sanctuary. Those who used him for 15 years in a 15 square-meters island in Americana Zoo. Those who blocked his transference to the
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