August, 8, 2009 Study with primates concludes that human bipedalism is originated from an ancestor who preferred trees to walk on the ground, similar to the gorillas FAPESP Agency – A news study, done though the analysis of bones of diverse species of primates, reinforce the notion that the human characteristic of
MEMBER OF GAP PROJECT GAP Project, Spain and the great primates lost one of their main defenders. Jordi Sabater was founder and scientific consultant of GAP Spain. He has always been a defender of the rights of great primates in our society. Executive Director of GAP Project Spain, Pedro Pozas
THERE ARE ONLY 700 Tanzania had, a few years ago, about 10000 chimpanzees in the wild. In Gombe, primatologist Jane Goodall began his research work with chimpanzees and showed to the world their ability to make tools as humans. Gombe, which has been declared National Park for the preservation of its primates&
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
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