Chester Zoo, Britain's most popular wildlife attraction, was evacuated on Sunday, 5, after 30 chimpanzees escaped from their enclosure. At the moment of the runaway about 5,000 visitors were asked to leave the zoo site as a security measure. The animals made their escape at lunchtime and found their way into a keeper
Chimpanzees who live in inadequate conditions use to have abnormal behavior originated both by physical and mental traumas. In general, we see that those who came from circus are more affected by physical damages, like castration and teeth pulled out, while the ones who came from zoos present psychological traumas
FROM IVORY COAST GAP PROJECT AT TAÏ NATIONAL PARK This is the first one of a series of news coverage that Dr.Serge Soiret, specialist in Tropical Ecology, will be sending us from his observation base at Taï National Park, Ivory Coast, on west Africa, where several
Former circus lions’ odyssey has finished and now they live in peace at the sanctuary
SOROCABA SANCTUARY On April 2009 four lions who worked at a circus were confiscated by Ibama (Brazilian Environment Institute) in a city in the countryside of Pará state, north region of Brazil. The lions were kept in tiny cages, were very thin and in terrible health conditions. Ibama provide the
CENTRE OF GREAT PRIMATES, FLORIDA Due to misunderstandings about the situation of Bubbles, a chimpanzee who used to owned by Michael Jackson, director of the sanctuary Centre of Great Primates (CGA), Patti Ragan, from Wauchula, Florida, published an official communication to the press, explaining the situation of Bubbles: “Bubbles,
An article published at Veja Magazine, one of the main magazines in Brazil, this week tells the story of African grey parrot Alex and his owner, and his ability to communicate and learn. The same article brings a table of some species of animal kingdom and their intelligence abilities (beside).
LOLA YA BONOBO SANCTUARY, AFRICA After five years of preparation, which included the identification of a special area at Democratic Republic of Congo, in Basankusu equatorial zone – and with the commitment of local population to protect and not to hunt -, a first group of bonobos is being reintroduced
BERLIN ZOO Doctors are trying to save the finger of the Berlin zoo director Bernhard Blaszkiewitz, 55, after a male chimpanzee named Pedro bit it off a day earlier. Director was feeding walnuts to the chimpanzee and Pedro grabbed his arm and bit his right index finger almost completely off. Doctors
SOROCABA SANCTUARYJune 11, Valentines’ Day Eve. There was no better day for us to try that the two tigers of the sanctuary get closer.We have been observing the tigers for a few days, but we did not know what would be their reaction. The situation indicated that Simba seemed
Message from Jane Goodall InstituteDear Friend,Do you remember Travis the chimpanzee? It’s only been a few months since Travis’ untimely death following his attack on his caretaker’s friend. As we continue to see more and more instances of chimpanzees working in the entertainment
Monday, June 8, 2009 Biologist Msc. Luiz Fernando Leal Padulla, from GAP Project in Sorocaba, has visited us. He presented Great Ape Protection Project (GAP), created on 1994, and told us that Sorocaba hosts one of the sanctuaries that guarantee the right of a fair life to the great primates. The lecture also
Eusebio Adjusts to Old Age, Americans Repair Old Roads
CHIMFUNSHI WILDLIFE ORPHANAGE, ZAMBIAEusebio is one of the oldest chimpanzees at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage. He came to us in 2000 from Chile, where he had lived alone for years at a zoo in Santiago, and he was 24 years of age when he arrived. His release had been leveraged by Carlos
SCIENTIFIC PROOF Sometimes scientists take it too seriously events like the laugh. According to a research of PortsmounthUniversity, in England, the origin of the laugh comes from games and jokes played already by our ancestors from 10 to 16 million years ago. Dr. Marina Davila Ross, a primatologist from Psychology Department of
SOROCABA SANCTUARYRecently it has been promoted by the press that some specialists are critical to the fact that orangutans orphan babies, who live at Orangutan Island Foundation (Bukit Merah, in Malásia), wear diapers and are being cared by nurses.As a biologist, I understand that there is no
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