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
CHIMPANZEES’ TOOLS The abilities of chimpanzees are increasingly surprising. They are not only able to choose rocks to peel nuts or choose a more reliable branch to use to cross a river. It has been just discovered that they do multi use tools to pick honey from hives.&
When North American laboratory Baxter bought the Austrian company IMMUNO AG, it received 41 chimpanzees locked in level 4 security installations. The majority was infected with virus of AIDS and Hepatitis. Some of these primates spent 20 years isolated in laboratory cages, being submitted to all kinds of invasive medical experimentation that did
SOROCABA SANCTUARYSiberian tiger Simba, abandoned by a circus at Porto Seguro, in Bahia state, more than two years ago in a pitiful condition, arrived from Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, where he was under the care of Ibama. In an official car of Ibama, they left early on
SOROCABA SANCTUARY In the last few weeks several new guests arrived at the sanctuary to enrich the diversity of species and to show society what the circus did with them. And why cool circuses are circuses without animals Tiger Chitara – female, adult, Siberian origin.Tiger Simba –
SOROCABA SANCTUARY He was abandoned at Porto Seguro, at Bahia state, by an itinerant circus, as it has been happening in the last years with tigers, lions and other animals. Ibama confiscated him and took him to a provisory enclosure. He was very thin, maybe near to death.
COLUMBUS, OHIO, USAOn May 19-21, PASA (Pan African Sanctuary Alliance) promoted a Management Workshop at Columbus, Ohio, United States. This meeting had two special characteristics: apart from celebrating PASA’s 10th anniversary, it was the first workshop of the alliance held outside Africa. GAP Project Brazil/International participated
DISNEY PRIZE 2009On April 23, 2006, a warning sign sounded in the morning when 31 chimpanzees of Tacugama Sanctuary, in Sierra Leone, West Africa, had escaped and attacked a taxi driver, who was taking three tourists he was taking to the sanctuary. He ended up dead. Bala Amarasekaran, founder of the
EMORY UNIVERSITYLast May 21 was a common day for a chimpanzee whose face is not known for us, but whom we know that is held at the basement in Yerkes National Primate Research Center, of Emory University, in Atlanta, United States. Wenka knows that she lives for a long time at
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