The Center for Great Apes: In memory of our beloved chimpanzee Jonah – 1996-2022
The Center for Great Apes is heartbroken to share the sad news that our beloved chimpanzee Jonah has died. Jonah has been under veterinary treatments for cardiac disease for the past four years after he had a sudden collapse in 2018 while playing with the females in his group. With the
By Jaqueline B. Ramos* It’s just about following the news to understand. And when they involve non-human animals, the adjective of lack of common sense is, unfortunately, more evident. Take, for example, a case that took place last month in Athens, Greece. On Saturday, June 25, a 27-year-old male chimpanzee
South African fossils may rewrite history of human evolution
By Charles Q. Choi (Livescience.com) Fossils found at the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa may be much older than previously thought. Ancient human-like fossils in South Africa may be more than a million years older than previously thought, which raises the odds that the species they came from gave
Book review – Chimpanzee Memoirs: stories of studying and saving our closest living relatives
By Alyson Baker* Who are the people who do chimpanzee research, rescue chimpanzees from appalling situations and secure them places in sanctuaries, care for the rescued chimpanzees in captivity? Stephen Ross and Lydia Hopper saw the generational turn-over among “chimpologists” and decided to document the stories of some of these
Chimpanzees have an exceptional ability to produce complex vocalizations
Paris, May 18, 2022 (AFP) - Chimpanzees have an exceptional ability to produce complex vocalizations, with nearly 400 different sequences identified by a team of scientists in this ape, the closest to humans. "They don't speak, of course, if we take human language as a reference," warns evolutionary biologist Cédric Girard Buttoz,
At the beginning of the year, the Public Defender's Office of the Province of Rio Negro, Argentina, presented a request for Habeas Corpus requesting the release of Toti, a chimpanzee who spent his entire life in a cage. The chimpanzee is 32 years old and was born in captivity in Buenos
GAP Spain: Peter Singer arrives in Barcelona to present his new book (“Los Derechos de los Simios) and defend the creation of the Great Apes Law
Event “Derechos humanos y animales, dos días con Peter Singer" will take place on June 9th and 10th at Pompeu Fabra University Peter Singer, philosopher, great advocate of animal rights and author of two books that have become essential for the movement - Animal Liberation (1975) and, together with Paola
“The Chimpanzee Whisperer”, by Stany Nyandwi with David Blisset: “I am riding in their truck”
By Alyson Baker* "The Chimpanzee Whisperer" is the memoir of Stany Nyandwi. Looking back over 50 years, we read of his home country, Burundi, a paradise with a bleak colonial history, being turned into “... a land of broken hearts” through a tribal civil war. We read of Stany’s love for
Thirteen years ago today, Save the Chimps' founder, Dr. Carole Noon passed away of pancreatic cancer in her home on sanctuary property. She remains an inspiration to all the lives she touched and a motivator to carry on her important work. More than 300 chimpanzees have found the peaceful and dignified
New book by Paula Casal and Peter Singer: “The Rights of Apes” (Los Derechos de los Simios)
The new book by philosophers Paula Casal and Peter Singer, "The Rights of Apes" (Los Derechos de los Simios, will be published in May. Paula Casal is the president of the GAP Project Spain. More and more is known about chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans, and it is becoming clearer
#FreeTommy – Each chimpanzee is an individual who has the right to live a free and fulfilling life
By Alyson Baker* In the late 1980s I saw the movie Project X, starring Matthew Broderick. It made a big impression on me - it is fiercely critical of the human exploitation and degradation of chimpanzees. The chimps are credited as individuals alongside their human co-stars, and they have agency
Documentary “Persona no humana” begins its premiere at festivals and cinemas
April 15, 2022.- The documentary film "Persona no humana, in which GAP Project has had an important participation, premieres at the International Documentary Festival of Valencia The next Sunday 8 (21:00) and Monday 9 (18:00) of May. From there, the journey begins at festivals around the world and screenings in movie theaters and other places
Sky after 30 years: a brief biography of three biomedical research chimpanzees in Japan
Many chimpanzees were captured in Africa to be guinea pigs in biomedical laboratories in the 1970s and 1980s. Japan was one of the countries that most "invested" in this practice, which only ended in 2006. Female Candy (photo) is one the chimpanzees caught in the wild for lab experiments purpose. The
World Biological Corridor has defined kilometer zero for chimpanzees
By GAP Project Spain The International Committee of the World Biological Corridor (CICBM) declared as the KILOMETER ZERO FOR CHIMPANZEES a large area in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The action took place together with the association Paradis des Primatas, which in the last year has been coordinating the
Thomas Lovejoy, renowned biologist who coined ‘biological diversity,’ dies at 80
Thomas Lovejoy, a well-known American conservation biologist who coined the term “biological diversity” in 1980, died on December 25 at the age of 80. Lovejoy, who lived in northern Virginia, spent more than 50 years working in the Amazon rainforest, founding the nonprofit Amazon Biodiversity Center and bringing worldwide attention to the threats of
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