After over 12 years living together, they were suddenly separated and never seen each other anymore. Male chimpanzee Bongo came to Brazil and the female bonobo (pygmy chimpanzee) Chimba went to a zoo in Germany. However, they were linked by their minds, the memories, joys and the uncertainty of a life together. They were no connected that never agreed to have another partner.

The love developed in 12 years of a life together was beyond the boundaries and all the situations that they have been submitted to. The fidelity sentiment remained strongly buried in their hearts.

We discovered this only recently, in Lisbon, where we were, in the end of April, for the launch of the book “I’m Chimba – 2nd edition”, in which Mario Carmo, writing as Chimba, narrated all the vicissitudes of the life of that couple of chimpanzees.

When we learned that Chimba had not accepted, until now, any other chimpanzee as a companion, we also remember that Bongo had never accepted any other female in the three opportunities we introduced females to live with him.

At that moment, knowing that Chimba had passed by several German zoos and had not adapted to any other chimpanzee that she has been put together, we believe that the couple of primates is deeply in love and love had transcended the boundaries that humans had brought into their lives.

In this situation, an idea came along with family Carmo: to join them again. The possibility exists, since the Government of Angola remains the owner of both chimpanzees and, both in Germany and in Brazil, we can sign a document of custodian of the chimpanzees, who will still belong to the African country.

The Angolan government can require to Germany government, considering the unusual situation – lack of integration of both primates with others of their kind, that they return to live together, better in a sanctuary, such as the ones in Brazil, which has the ideal conditions for the survival of both.

The family Carmo will start the procedure with the Angolan authorities and GAP Project will finance the entire transport logistics of Chimba to Brazil.

The love of a couple of primates like this should be respected above any other consideration, since these feelings are ever further from the human reality in today’s world.

Love, in the case of the great apes, also has no boundaries.