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Marcelino Chimpanzee
He enjoys making nests by cutting the blanket into several pieces and observing the movement of other chimpanzees through the basket at the top of the platform.
Date of birth: 03/27/2007
Origin: Great Apes Sanctuary of Sorocaba, Brazil
Sanctuary: Sorocaba, São Paulo/Brazil

He is the son of Peter and Táta, a chimpanzee who arrived at the Sanctuary already pregnant. He is the older brother of Miguel and Milan. He is extremely affectionate, sociable, and playful.

Marcelino enjoys making nests by cutting the blanket into several pieces and observing the movement of other chimpanzees through the basket at the top of the platform. He is very active, always alert, but at the same time very calm.

He needed to be removed from his family group because as he grew older, he began to compete for dominance with his father. At this time, when Marcelino was in need of companionship, the chimpanzee Cecilia arrived at the sanctuary from Argentina. The two were slowly introduced and quickly showed compatibility and interest in each other. This provided Cecilia with a faster adaptation and a happier life for both of them.

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Family
Father
Lives at the Sanctuary.
Peter
Chimpanzee
He arrived at the Sanctuary in 2007. Peter had been living in a zoo in Fortaleza, northeast of Brazil, where he suffered a lot, especially after the zoo closed and fell into a precarious situation.
Date of birth: 1985
Origin: Paraíso Perdido zoo (northeast Brazil)
Sanctuary: Sorocaba, São Paulo/Brazil
Brother
Lives at the Sanctuary.
Miguel
Chimpanzee
He is very similar to his brother Marcelino, both physically and in personality.
Date of birth: 10/09/2010
Origin: Great Apes Sanctuary of Sorocaba, SP, Brazil.
Sanctuary: Sorocaba, São Paulo/Brazil
Brother
Lives at the Sanctuary.
Milan
Chimpanzee
He has his peculiar way of observing everything and everyone - he raises his head and looks "from above”.
Date of birth: 09/07/2015
Origin: Great Apes Sanctuary of Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil
Sanctuary: Sorocaba, São Paulo/Brazil
Mother
Lived at the Sanctuary.
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Táta
Chimpanzee
She arrived at the sanctuary in 2007, very weak but pregnant, and managed to give birth to a healthy baby, chimpanzee Marcelino.
Date of birth: 1990
Origin: Paraíso Perdido zoo (northeast Brazil)
Sanctuary: Sorocaba, São Paulo/Brazil

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