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
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.
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