There are less than 4 thousand tigers in the wild in the world, according to recent report by organization TRAFFIC. This is an evidence of treat to extinction and it is dramatic. At the same time, only in United States there are, according to the same report, 5 thousand tigers in captivity – and this is the number registered. As long as nine North-American states do not demand any official license for a person to have a tiger at home as a pet, this number can be higher.
Several animal protection organizations demand that North-America Government begin to monitor the population of tigers that live with private people and prohibit their reproduction, because in the end the new tigers are sacrificed so that their body parts are sold on market, especially in Asia. Since 2000, Convention CITES (that protects endangered species of extinction) firmed a resolution that obliges the 174 countries that sign the convention to monitor each individual that lives in their territory. But United States, the country that has more tigers in captivity than the number of the animals in the wild in the world, do not sign CITES agreement.
Great apes: what we know about their cognition, cooperation and curiosity after two decades of research
Article by one of the creators of EVApe Cognition, a standardized database comprising 18 years of experiments, decisions, and relationships of great apes. It is a tool designed to support long-term studies of behavior and to enable a deeper understanding of the complexity of their social lives.
Study demonstrates long breastfeeding periods in orangutans
A new study published in the scientific journal Communications Biology showed that orangutans in Borneo, Indonesia, breastfeed their offspring for an average of 6.5 years. This is one of the longest breastfeeding periods ever recorded among mammals in the wild.
PETA – LEAKED VIDEO: Monkeys Caged in Squalor Inside Largest U.S. Primate Laboratory
After receiving video revealing terrified monkeys confined to kitchen cabinet-sized cages with urine, feces, and rotting food, PETA filed a complaint urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to investigate the New Iberia Research Center, operated by the University of Louisiana.
What plunged these chimps into civil war? A new study traces the breakdown
Specialists who have been studying the behavior of a group of chimpanzees in the wild in Uganda for 30 years published a groundbreaking study in the journal Science this week. The work reveals details about how and why internal violence sometimes turns into a kind of broader civil war.
A chimp’s instrumental performances help us understanding the evolution of musicality
Researchers of great apes' behavior already knew that chimpanzees exhibit instrumental behaviors and are particularly skilled at drumming rhythms. But experts from Kyoto University have identified that 26‑year‑old chimp Ayumu combined percussion with vocalization.
The social integration process of #chimpYoko has advanced!
After a little more than seven months since his arrival and ongoing observation of his general condition and behavior, the team at the Great Apes Sanctuary of Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil, successfully carried out an internal transfer to a new…
He arrived at the Sanctuary after an unprecedented operation involving several organizations that mobilized to make his transfer possible. Yoko was the last remaining captive chimpanzee in Colombia.
Chimpanzee Jeber was castrated and had all his teeth pulled out in the circus where he lived. Because of this, he developed an unusual way of eating certain things. For example, to eat coconut, he uses his fingers to pull…
He arrived at the sanctuary in 2008, along with his companion Tyson, when IBAMA (Brazilian Environmental Institute) confiscated all animals from Le Cirque Circus, in Brasília.
Chimps Caco and Jully are inseparable companions and an inspiring example of the transformative potential of socialization in a Sanctuary. Twenty three years ago, They found each other, complemented one another, and discovered their balance to live the peace and…