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Post by panGH on Jul 26, 2011 20:14:55 GMT -5
The place for all things Chimpanzee!
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Post by panGH on Jul 31, 2011 18:46:12 GMT -5
A video I made of chimpanzee Soona's attempts at getting food out of a hanging bottle. She tried several different methods in order to get the food inside. Such a clever lady!
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Post by joan on Aug 6, 2011 14:37:12 GMT -5
She is pretty and so athletic! Lovely video.
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Post by pululah on Aug 10, 2011 6:58:50 GMT -5
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Post by panGH on Aug 11, 2011 0:52:11 GMT -5
That's a very interesting article, it's nice that they've now got proof that chimps show altruism, though many people have known it to be the case for a long time.
An example of altruism in chimps that sticks in my mind is one Roger Fouts wrote about in his book 'Next of Kin'. A new chimp that had just been introduced onto the juveniles' island panicked, leapt the electric fence and fell into the moat. Seeing this, Washoe jumped the fence after her, and doing so risking her own life. Thankfully Washoe landed on a strip of ground rather than in the water and was able to pull the other chimp, Penny, who was on the verge of drowning out of the water.
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Post by joan on Aug 11, 2011 5:39:47 GMT -5
Lucky that incident had a happy ending, years ago in Dublin zoo both a chimpanzee baby who had fallen into the moat and her mother who went in to rescue her drowned. The moat was subsequently modified. It's odd how monkeys are good swimmers, even underwater with babies clinging to them, but apes drown.
Yes there are numerous cases of altruism in apes, am surprised that it has taken so long for it to be formally acknowledged.
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Post by panGH on Aug 11, 2011 21:14:17 GMT -5
So sad, moats can be very dangerous things.
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Post by chimptrainersdaughter on Aug 21, 2011 7:29:31 GMT -5
I write a blog about chimpanzees. This weekend I talked about Keo, a grand old chimpanzee at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. One of the comments mentioned that we don't have enough "good news" stories about chimps in zoos (and I would add sanctuaries). See chimptrainersdaughter.blogspot.com/2011/08/discovering-new-truths-bad-and-good.html?spref=fb I tend to agree with that. Let me know of examples where organizations have gone the extra mile to keep a family together, to offer respect to their seniors, or to help a traumatized chimpanzee recover.
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Post by pululah on Aug 21, 2011 17:18:14 GMT -5
Monkey World ( www.monkeyworld.org) has got lots of stories about poor ill-treated chimps who have gone onto a better life - Paddy the beach photographers prop who has gone on to be an excellent alpha-male and father, Bryan the baby rescued from a Mexico beach photographer who had all his teeth broken off, Susie another photographer's chimp who has been a brilliant mother to two babies, Trudy, a very traumatised baby who was filmed being beaten by her owner, she's very small and has had some ill health dues to her experiences but now lives in a mixed group. The most recent rescued chimp Kiki spent 8 years sealed into a cage in Lebanon. Concerned people used to go and visit her. www.animalslebanon.org/news-a-events/date/520-kiki-chimpShe has settled in well at Monkey World, from the beginning she made friends and was very brave about going outside and exploring the large enclosure, climbing to the top of the highest frames (and they are BIG at Monkey World.) www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2027806/Bananas-monkeys-From-obese-orang-utans-abandoned-chimps-s-primate-peril-woman-come-rescue-.html?ito=feeds-newsxmlA potentially interesting chimp is Boris at Chester Zoo. He was poached from Sierra Leone as a baby and sold in a New York pet shop. After living in an apartment for a year they realised they couldn't keep him and sent him to Chester, he went on to be alpha male and have lots of babies. He is now 46, no longer alpha male but still lives in a big (about 26) group where he has lots of respect. He's a big character yet also seems to like people watching! There was a book written by his previous owner about the time he spent with them. He seems to have made the transition from pet to chimp's chimp very successfully whilst still keeping an interest in people (even if it was to throw things at them in his younger days!) Baby Boris www.flickr.com/photos/35226061@N06/3333002639Boris now www.flickr.com/photos/lolamon/4847467681/in/set-72157627217085214This is the book - No He's Not a Monkey, He's an Ape and He's My Son by Hester Mundis www.amazon.com/Hes-Not-Monkey-Ape-Son/dp/0759229341/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313965954&sr=8-1
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Post by chimptrainersdaughter on Sept 1, 2011 18:54:12 GMT -5
Thanks pululah! I'm going to get the book about Boris. I'm especially interested in how zoos are taking in chimpanzees. I love the sanctuaries, and they do a marvelous job at telling the back stories of their rescues, but for some reason the zoo public relations departments (at least in the U.S.) don't want to tell the stories of their chimps. I don't understand the reasoning at all...
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Post by pululah on Sept 2, 2011 17:06:34 GMT -5
We did a special fundraiser earlier in the year which involved seeing inside the chimp house, Boris was blowing raspberries at us through the grille in the door - it made our day!
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Post by panGH on Sept 16, 2011 0:22:22 GMT -5
I'm hoping to spend two weeks at Chimp Eden in South Africa, it would be an amazing experience if I can go.
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Post by panGH on Sept 20, 2011 17:30:35 GMT -5
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Post by panGH on Sept 21, 2011 20:35:19 GMT -5
Galatea
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Post by panGH on Oct 13, 2011 5:54:11 GMT -5
Some clips of chimp Gombe at Monarto Zoo, he is such a character
A video of all the zoo's chimpanzees at feeding time
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