The story of Alfred the Gorilla

I would like to give special thanks to Annabel, the writer of this wonderful story who has given me permission to post her story and her photos. Alfred was a lifelong friend of Annabels and would like to share the love with everyone.

Alfred the Gorilla

As a child, my father would love to tell us about Alfred The Gorilla, one of Bristol Zoo's star attractions.

My father was in the Home Guard as a young man and had the job of standing guard over Alfred during bombing raids etc. He always told us that it was his job to shoot Alfred if a bomb damaged the cage and he was released into the city. I have no idea if that was true, but it sounds feasible.


OK, I feel slightly icky looking back at these old photographs of Alfred in his cage, as it is such a cruel way to keep any animal, but it was accepted as normal at the time. Bristol Zoo was very popular and space was limited in the middle of a city.

The photo on the left was taken in 1946 when he was aged 18 and was 33 stone.

He became famous around the world, and this fame was increased during the war by GI's sending postcards of him to their homes in America. Over 20,000 images a year were bought and sent at the height of his popularity.
According to my father, Alfred was grumpy. He apparently disliked double decker buses, aeroplanes and men with beards. The zoo celebrated his birthday every year My father also said he was taken on walks around the zoo on a collar and chain and was often dressed up in clothes. He also liked to make snowballs and throw them at visitors.

Alfred the Gorilla was bought to the zoo in the 1930's from a Rotterdam Zoo, and he died in 1948. He was also, apparently, suckled by a woman in the Congo before going to Rotterdam! He had a thyroid deficiency which was treated, but also had tuberculosis, and he collapsed and died after being frightened by a plane, and running into his sleeping quarters.

When he died, he was the oldest gorilla in captivity and was loved by many people who had never seen a gorilla before. He was stuffed by Rowland Ward, a famous taxidermist, and put on show in the museum.

As a child, and as a mother, we used to visit him regularly at the museum.....my last visit being in September this year. See, a lifelong love!!

Here's an amusing video of how Albert came to be stuffed.

In 1956 he was stolen from the museum and disappeared without trace. Here's a bit from the local paper, the Evening Post to explain what happened and how he turned up again.

It is a mystery that has puzzled Bristol families for generations but today the Evening Post can exclusively reveal who stole Alfred the Gorilla 54 years ago.

The much-loved gorilla, who died in 1948, stands in a glass case in Bristol City Museum, but for a short time in 1956, at the start of University Rag Week, he vanished without trace.

Now after the death of estate agent Ron Morgan, 79, a family secret has been revealed involving him and two university friends in a definite case of monkey business.

The truth was kept under wraps for so long because Mr Morgan, his friend Fred Hooper, 77, and his other accomplice, known only as DB, feared they would be prosecuted by the museum or the council.

Ron Morgan, right, took Alfred the Gorilla with pal Fred Hooper, centre, and a third man known as DB
The ape-napping caused public outcry during March 1956 after the stuffed gorilla, a celebrity figure in Bristol who was worth about £600 at the time, mysteriously disappeared.

Police scoured university processions searching for Alfred, who was thought to be taken as a prank, and even threatened to prosecute the organisers of rag week, but to no avail.

Several days later Donald Boulton, a caretaker at Bristol University's student health service, had the shock of his life when he entered the patient's waiting room and was faced with the stuffed gorilla, which had been left in the centre of the room.

Until now only three people and their families knew what had happened to Alfred during those 60 hours with the gorilla himself remaining tight-lipped. But as a tribute to Mr Morgan, who lived in Clevedon and ran Morgan and Sons estate agents in Eastville, his family and friends have revealed the secret they have had to keep for over 50 years along with a collection of photographs kept as a record.

Mr Hooper, who now lives in Cheltenham, said: "It was initially my idea."I was about 23 at the time and I thought it would be a great rag week jape."We took Alfred because he was such a big Bristol personality and he was close by. It took a bit of planning, we told the museum we were making a film and that's how we got in. We knew the porter and so we were able to get a key cut to the secondary door that linked the museum to the university."Then we hid in the belfry until about 1am when every- thing was closed. It wasn't such a good idea in hindsight as the bells were still ringing and incredibly loud.

"We got into the museum and then we used the side door to get him out onto Park Row. It was very early in the morning and we stuffed him into the boot of an old Vauxhall car, that cost me £35, folded back the seats and sped off to my bedsit, in West Park, off Whiteladies Road.

"That's where he stayed for the duration and we took pictures of him in different guises. There were all sorts of stories going around, people thought Cardiff students had kidnapped him and there was a rumour he was in a cave somewhere but we never told anyone we had him.

"It was always our intention to return him and so the easiest thing was to take him to a doctor's waiting room which was just across the road. It was midday on a Saturday and we just carried him over and left him there."

Mr Morgan's son Gerard, 45, said: "We know that initially the three tried to lift Alfred and couldn't understand why he was so heavy but it was actually because he was screwed to a plinth and they were trying to lift their own weight."

He said a family scrapbook, containing original stories from the Evening Post about the theft, had become something of a family heirloom.He said: "My father used to develop his own photographs which is why he was able to take these pictures without anyone else finding out."This scrapbook has been locked in a secret drawer in our home and travelled around the world with him."

The City Museum has now sent a letter to Gerard assuring the family that no one will be prosecuted over the kidnap.Dr Jo Gipps, director, Bristol Zoo Gardens, said: "At his death in 1948, Alfred was the longest-living gorilla in captivity anywhere in the world. In spite of the events of 1956, he is now one of the star attractions on display at the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery." Tim Corum, Deputy Head of Bristol's Museums, Galleries & Archives service, said: "We are intrigued and pleased to hear about the revelations concerning Alfred the Gorilla's 'escape' from the City Museum & Art Gallery in 1956.

"Museum staff have long known about this Rag Week stunt but not heard the inside story of those involved before. Although we would never condone any such illegal activity as reportedly happened, the council will not be taking any action against the reputed perpetrators either.

"Instead we will be adding the latest reports to the bulging file relating to one of Bristol's best loved figures."

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Minnie the Capuchin Monkey (Helping Hands) has a companion

The Helping Hands Monkeys are a wonderful addition to a home where they are needed. Remember readers, these are highly trained monkeys by professional people that work with them all of the time. Please do not be disillusioned that if you bought a baby monkey you also could do this training. It won't happen. It's takes full dedication, knowledge and years and years of training.

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Specially-trained Capuchin monkeys in the US are helping physically disabled people with the housework by performing tasks such as removing garbage, fetching the telephone or switching on the microwave. The furry companions are also helping paraplegics cope with loneliness.
It's her small hands that make Minnie especially useful. Hairy and slender, with slim fingers and black nails, the Capuchin monkey's hands are just right for twisting open a bottle of juice or fetching the telephone. And when Craig Cook's head itches, Minnie comes and scratches it until he feels better.

"She is more human than you would think," Cook says. The 44-year-old American, who has been paraplegic for more than 14 years, runs his stiff fingers lovingly through Minnie's fur as she cuddles on his lap, observing his guest curiously with her large, brown eyes. Then the monkey jumps up and crosses the kitchen of Cook's bungalow at a wild run, screeching and leaping, a bundle of energy wrapped up in dark brown fur.

"Pretty amazing, isn't it?" Cook says, his eyes shining. He has shared his bungalow here in La Habra, near Los Angeles, with the 30-year-old Capuchin monkey for the past six years. They watch Los Angeles Angels baseball games on TV together, or enjoy the California sun from the patio. And when Cook has "one of those bad days," it's Minnie who manages to make him laugh.

"It's wonderful to have an animal like that at home," Cook says. A former engineer and American football quarterback, he broke his spine in a car accident. He's very lucky to have Minnie -- there are only 45 Capuchin monkeys like her in the entire US, and Minnie is one of the best.

Monkey School
Minnie spent several years in training at the Monkey College, a facility run by a Boston-based aid organization called Helping Hands. This unusual school trains monkeys as household assistants and life partners for paralyzed people -- with great success. "The Capuchin monkeys provide independence and the gift of joy and companionship to the recipients, says Helping Hands employee Andrea Rothfelder. "These animals are very affectionate and loving; a lot of recipients call it a little miracle when their monkey moves in with them."
Director of training Alison Payne describes the Monkey College as a "mixture of pre-school and zoo." Helping Hands has a total of 180 monkeys, 50 of them currently being trained in Boston. Here in the three-story center, the monkeys practice using light switches, drawers, bottles and CD players. They learn the actions first in a room with only Spartan furnishings; later they practice in a "teaching apartment" outfitted with a wheelchair, bed, bookshelf and kitchenette.

Trainers drill the monkeys on around 30 commands, including "fetch," for retrieving an object, and "trash," for taking something to the garbage can. "Push" might mean the monkey should shut the refrigerator door, while "open" would achieve the opposite. Motivation for learning tasks is provided with peanut butter and spray can whipped cream.

"The monkeys are naturally curious," Payne says. "We try to expand their attention space." Still, the monkeys are also allowed some time off. Today Chichi and Jessica are romping around the playroom, chasing bubbles. For their classmate Tricia, it's bath day. Trainer Jennifer Evans has filled the kitchen sink with a lukewarm bubble bath, where Tricia is splashing about, poking her soaking wet head over the edge. A few minutes later, the trainer comes over to rub her dry.

"They're very much like two-year-olds," Payne says. Actually, the monkeys are between eight and 10, the ideal age range for drilling and training, when they start at the Monkey College. First, they get used to people by living in foster families. Next come two to four years of training. Once they're housetrained, they can move in with a disabled person.

Inseparable Companions

When Cook began his life together with Minnie, the evening that ruined his life was already several years behind him. On January 12, 1996, the engineer met a colleague for dinner in Los Angeles. The two left the restaurant shortly before midnight. "It was a mild evening, and Tyler wanted to take a drive in my convertible," Cook recalls. As they sped down the highway, Cook's colleague lost control of the 300-horsepower car. The vehicle flipped over and slid down an embankment. Cook's spine snapped instantly; his colleague was barely hurt.

Cook lost everything that day -- his job; his girlfriend, who soon moved out; but above all control over his own body. Unable to adjust to his new life, he found himself sliding into depression. But when a friend heard of Helping Hands, Cook contacted the organization and sent an application video. A couple of months later, Minnie entered his life.
"When the trainers came out here, they stayed for about a week," he recalls. "It was only then that she accepted me as the new king." That's the way of Capuchin monkeys -- they live in groups and choose their leaders with care.

Today, Cook and Minnie are inseparable. "Spoon," Cook says and the monkey fetches one from the silverware drawer. "Sun" -- Minnie turns on the light. "Can you do hand?" -- Minnie hoists her master's arm, which has slipped down from the armrest. He uses that hand to operate his wheelchair.
"Minnie can be lifesaving for me," Cook says. One time, his wheelchair got stuck on the patio as the sun was going down. Cook knew he was facing an entire night sitting in the dark, freezing and getting wet, until his caregiver arrived in the morning. He called Minnie, who brought his telephone. An hour later, help was there. "I had tears in my eyes," Cook says.
"The monkeys can be a lifeline; however, the most important thing of all is the companionship that they bring and this unconditional love," says director of training Payne. "Suddenly you have this little monkey person at home who just thinks that you are the coolest thing ever."

'They Alleviate the Pain and the Loneliness'

Helping Hands employees tell the story of a veteran who lost both his legs in Iraq. "He says that the monkey is the only one who takes him the way he is and who doesn't notice that he hasn't any legs," Rothfelder says. The monkeys could never take the place of a full-time caregiver, "but they allieviate both the pain and the loneliness of being home alone and also provide some tasks in the house."

It's hardly surprising that the clever Capuchin monkeys are in hot demand, but Helping Hands is only able to provide between six and eight of the monkeys to paralyzed individuals each year. It costs the organization around $40,000 (€30,500) to train a single monkey, all of which must come from donations. The service is free for the patients.

Craig Cook can count himself lucky -- his Minnie has granted him a new life. He remembers clearly the moment when the monkey jumped onto his shoulder for the first time, after five months together. "Suddenly she rubbed her fingers through the back of my hair," he says. "That's the ultimate sign of affection."

Cook estimates Minnie could live another 15 years, but he's loath to think beyond that point. The monkey won a place in his heart long ago.
"Minnie, are you OK?" -- these are the words he'll use to call the monkey tonight, after the caregiver has helped him into bed. And Minnie will answer him, from her cage in the living room, where she rolls herself up beneath a small, light blue blanket.

"And she will go toot toot toot," Cook says. Then he gives a small smile and explains: "That means, 'Everything is all right.'"

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Helping Hands Website here

Baby Bonobo born at the Columbus Zoo

Columbus, OH - Columbus Zoo and Aquarium animal care staff arrived at work this morning, December 28, 2010 and discovered the anticipated birth of a baby bonobo. The baby, whose sex is still unknown, is the 12th bonobo born at the Columbus Zoo since the Zoo received its first bonobos in 1990 in conjunction with the Species Survival Plan (SSP) for this endangered ape.

This is the third baby for mother “Ana Neema” who is caring for the newborn in the company of the other bonobos in her group including her offspring 9-year-old “Bila Isa” and 4-year-old “Gilda” who came with her from the Milwaukee County Zoo in 2008. Bonobos live in dynamic groups and confirmation of the baby’s sire, either “Toby” or “Donnie”, awaits the results of genetic paternity testing. There are only nine facilities in North America caring for bonobos and there are currently 16 bonobos at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.

Bonobos and people share more than 98% of the same DNA; in fact, bonobos and chimpanzees are more closely related genetically to humans than they are to gorillas. The bonobo is the smallest of the great apes and is a separate species from the chimpanzee. Females give birth to a single baby after a gestation period of approximately 8 ½ months.
Bonobos were the last of the great apes to be discovered and is the rarest with only 5,000-50,000 living in the equatorial forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The primary threat to the endangered bonobo is human behavior, mainly habitat destruction caused by logging. A secondary threat is the hunting of bonobos for bushmeat for native consumption and for sale to logging companies and markets.

For apes—gorillas, bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans, gibbons and siamangs—the outlook in the wild is bleak. Given severe loss of habitat and population declines, it is estimated that some ape species will be extinct within 20 years if immediate action is not taken. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is a platinum member of the newly formed Ape Taxon Advisory Group Conservation Initiative which includes 40 zoos accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. The initiative is funding eight field conservation projects including combating illegal wildlife trade in Central Africa and funding for sanctuaries that care for animals and also play a key role in law enforcement efforts and conservation education.

Recognizing the desperate situation bonobos face in the wild, the Columbus Zoo also supports the Congolese association ABC - Les Amis des Bonobos du Congo (Friends of Bonobos in Congo). ABC operates Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary, which has advocated for wildlife conservation in Kinshasa for the past 10 years. ABC's mission is "to contribute to the protection of bonobos in their natural environment through educational programs, advocacy work and the facilitation of behavioral research."

Over the past five years the Columbus Zoo and Partners in Conservation has distributed more than $4 million in conservation grants worldwide.

“Bonobos and other great apes desperately need our help” said Columbus Zoo President and CEO Dale Schmidt. “Each and every time you visit an accredited zoo you are part of the solution and making a difference for wildlife.”

Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is open 363 days of the year. General admission is $12.99 for adults, $7.99 for children ages 2 to 9 and seniors 60+. Children under 2 and Columbus Zoo members are free. The Zoo was named the #1 Zoo in America by USA Travel Guide and is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA.) For more information and to purchase advance Zoo admission tickets, visit http://www.columbuszoo.org/.

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CareerBuilders is planning on using Chimpanzees again! Sign the Petition

According to PETA, the job search website CareerBuilder.com is planning to continue their not-so-proud tradition of using real, live chimpanzees in their big-dollar Super Bowl commercials again in 2011. The whole chimpanzee thing is a longstanding part of CareerBuilder's advertising shtick; they've done several spots featuring chimps.

PETA, with an assist from actress Angelica Huston is calling on CareerBuilder's CEO, Matt Ferguson, to pull the ad (it's already been made) on principle. Ferguson, in a company-issued statement, says that everything on the set was on the up-and-up: "...we followed strict guidelines to ensure our chimpanzee stars were treated well and not harmed in any way."

The problem is, what happens on the set itself is usually the least of a chimp's worries. It's what happens before and after their acting "career" that's really damaging. First, most of the chimps used in advertising are pretty young animals; often, they're taken away from their mothers before they're emotionally ready to be away.
And, their "careers" in entertainment are usually pretty short. Chimpanzees are strong, and sometimes aggressive, animals. According to PETA, by the time a chimp gets to be about eight years old, they're usually unmanageable for commercial shoots. The problem is, chimpanzees are also pretty long-lived — they can live for 60 years in captivity. So what happens when they're too old to be docile enough for entertainment?

That's the really bad part. Usually, they end up in research facilities, or perhaps worse, unaccredited zoos and animal shows. Chimps, of course, are our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, so it's fair to ask whether you'd like to spend fifty years or so living in those conditions.

But the biggest problem with chimps in advertising is that most people just don't really know about the conditions they face. I suspect that Matt Ferguson, the CEO of CareerBuilder, is probably one of those people who don't know the details. There's no shame in that, as long as you do the right thing once you get educated.

By the way, among the people who do know the truth about chimps in advertising, you can count executives at ten of the nation's biggest ad agencies. They, along with a good number of smaller ad shops have signed on to PETA's pledge not to use live chimps in their work. You can also count the folks at Dodge, who earlier this year pulled a chimp ad, replacing it with a pretty clever alternate ending. PETA, for all the controversy they sometimes stir up, has done a remarkable job of plugging away and educating advertisers and ad agencies about the seedy side of animal advertising.

That's the good news. Once people find out about the hell that chimps go through when they're used for advertising, they wise up and change their ways. Here's hoping CareerBuilder does the same.

Ask CareerBuilder not to air the new ad, and to stop using chimpanzees in future advertising.

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Reconciliation of Chimpanzees is done through grooming

Much of the effort to keep bullies from interfering with learning in the classroom focuses on improving children's sense of empathy — the innate ability to share another's emotions.

We're accustomed to attributing aggressive behaviors to our distant primate past — ''Hey you kids, stop acting like apes!'' But researchers are discovering that our jungle ancestors also bestowed upon us virtues such as cooperation, reconciliation and empathy.

The Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University studies groups of chimpanzees — our closest living relatives — and other primates to learn more about the deep origins of human behavior.

Humans and chimps share a common ancestor on the evolutionary family tree, but humans diverged from that branch about 5.5 million years ago.

Chimpanzees live in hierarchical societies with high-ranking and low-ranking members. They sometimes fight viciously, especially against outsiders, and even murder each other.

However, they survive by mostly getting along, whether it's cooperating to hunt monkeys or building coalitions to seize power in the group.

That means chimps use a lot of brain power remembering who their friends are, who owes them a favor and who deserves payback for a past betrayal.

Primate reconciliation

Frans de Waal, one of the world's most prominent primate experts who works at Yerkes, became more interested in what chimps did after a fight than during the fight itself.
De Waal discovered that they ''reconcile'' after fights by cleaning parasites out of each other's hair. Grooming is a calming, pleasurable activity that restores social harmony.

''It was really important to signal to all the individuals involved that that episode was over, they could go back to life as usual,'' said Matthew Campbell, a Living Links Postdoctoral Fellow at the primate center who works with de Waal.

Campbell said he has observed instances, however, when the winner of a fight refuses to reconcile with the loser. The loser will slap himself and scream until he finally gets some signal that the fight is over.

''I've seen a male in one of our groups withhold reconciliation a number of times from individuals that wanted to, making them very distressed,'' Campbell said. ''That's the closest thing I can think of to bullying.''

The male appeared to be holding back on purpose, but Campbell said researchers don't know enough about how chimps think to say whether the male could imagine how his behavior would make the other chimp feel.
Human kids don't groom each other, but nonstop texting and Facebook status updates might serve the same social bonding purpose.
''In that sense, whether we bond over touch, text or talk is irrelevant,'' Campbell said.

The kind of ''verbal grooming'' that Facebook makes possible, however, also enables people to gang up on a victim in a new and potentially devastating way.

That's why Merle Bennett Buzzelli, who heads the Akron school district's bullying prevention program, was dispatched to Seiberling elementary school to talk to sixth-graders when Facebook fights began spilling over into the classroom.

She told them that she has a special relationship with the social networking site and can dig into any kid's account if a Facebook fight — which mostly happen among girls — disrupts learning.

Buzzelli said kids usually are shocked to discover that she can print the record of all the nasty things they've said about each other, regardless of the privacy settings on their accounts.

She looks for the tell-tale signs of bullying as Akron Public Schools defines it: A bully has more power than the victim and causes mental or physical harm repeatedly. It's not the same as a one-time fight on the playground between equals.

''I see very little purpose in young kids your age having free access to Facebook and those things,'' Buzzelli told the sixth-graders. ''All I'm seeing is kids fighting over Facebook.''

Those fights can go on for weeks and the hurtful words don't just vanish in the heat of the moment, they forever taunt the victim online.
Campbell hasn't observed in other species the kind of persistent human bullying that deliberately isolates a child from the group without hope for reconciliation, the kind that sometimes ends in suicide.

''That perpetual fear of aggression, that perpetual lack of safety, that perpetual status as an outcast probably leads to the extreme steps that some of the victims take,'' he said.

''Chimpanzees don't experience that. This individual might withhold reconciliation, but it's on a span of minutes, not forever. Even when there's a fight in the group and someone gets wounded, you don't have to wait very long before they're grooming each other.''

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Hello, students at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) are conducting a survey on attittudes towards animals, especially on wild animals kept as pets. You are invited to respond to the survey. Please click on the link below to start. http://www.1cs.si/a/1312 Thank you! Ana

Rare Stub-Nosed Monkeys are in danger

Human activity is destroying the habitat of the wild grey snub-nosed monkey, a critically-endangered species in southwest China's Guizhou Province, conservationists said Tuesday.
"Their habitat is now restricted to a 260-square-kilometer area in the Fanjingshan Nature Reserve," said Yang Yeqin, the reserve's chief. "Few monkeys are found outside the area these days."

Even in the quietness of the mountain area, human activity and its attendant pollution threatens the monkeys, Yang said.

"Many tourists travel to the nature reserve these days. Environmental pollution -- water pollution in particular -- poses a threat to the monkeys," he said.

When the reserve area becomes crowded, contagious diseases are more easily spread, another threat to the monkeys' health, said Yang. "Snub-nosed monkeys live in groups, and so contagious diseases spread quickly and can even endanger the species."

Last year, the reserve's management demolished an 80-bed mountain-top hotel because the garbage it produced polluted the monkeys' habitat.

The grey snub-nosed monkeys of Guizhou Province are the rarest of the three species of golden monkeys that inhabit China's Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Hubei provinces.

Chinese scientists found groups of snub-nosed monkeys in the early 1980s. At the time, the species's population was estimated to be around 200. After years of protection, the population has expanded to around 850. But even that number is less than the wild population of giant pandas, which is estimated at around 1,600.

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What the public thinks of the pratices of Gini Valbuena AKA Virginia Valbuena

Gini Valbuena AKA Virginia of Florida has been taking baby chimpanzees and Orangutans away from their mothers for 40+ years.

Gini Valbuena who runs Chimpencounter florida, which use to be called Valbuena Chimps has a video up on YouTube whereas her last chimp, named Noah is brushing his teeth. Where is Noah now? She now has Eli AKA Chance at the Rosaire's place in Florida. You folks I'm sure have heard about that awful Circus clan.

I'm happy to see that the public view of owning Chimpanzees is not only abusive, but sick and delusional. Years ago people would post how cute they are, though with all of the events that have happened with Chimpanzees in the past 2 years it has brought great awareness. Chimpanzees are not pets, not your prisoner to hold and don't belong to people! I would say that most of the good comments have come from Gini Valbuena herself or one of the rosaire's circus clans.

TO GOOGLE HER IS TO KNOW HER....
Here's her website
Ask her where have all of the baby chimps gone in the past 40+ years. She'll never tell!


The public opinion;
It has been illegal to import baby chimpanzees since 1975. Eli was not captured from the wild and his mother was not murdered. Eli's mother was herself born in this country and raised by humans. Eli was her first baby and she had no idea how to care for him. And again, he is not a pet. The wild is a cruel place for chimps...bushmeat, deforestation, human encroachment and disease are taking their tolls and chimps will soon become extinct in the wild. Extinction is forever.

CarolNoe 7 months ago 8 CarolNoe 7 months ago 8 You are so lucky to have this little guy...even though he will get huge but I am sure he will be a loving companion throughout his years. I just love watching him..so cute.

LoriEdenexDavidDuke 7 months ago 6 LoriEdenexDavidDuke 7 months ago 6 see all

YOU'RE JUST PATHETIC AND SAD, AND NEEDED A CUTE BABY CHIMPY TO CUDDLE AND TAKE CARE OF SO THAT YOU CAN FEEL LIKE SOMEONE OR SOMETHING OUT THERE NEEDS YOU AND YOUR LIFE ISN'T SO USELESS. GET A DOG, THERE ARE MANY WHO NEED HOMES. AND QUIT LYING. THAT CHIMP IS ABSOLUTELY YOUR PET. PEOPLE IN THE CUSTODY OF BABY CHIMPS BECAUSE THEY ARE REHABILITATING THEM DO NOT TEACH THEM TO BRUSH TEETH, WEAR CLOTHES OR LIVE IN THE HOUSE. YOU PEOPLE ARE LAUGHABLE AND THE GOV'T EVENTUALLY WILL TAKE YOUR LIL BABY AWAY

McGrimed 1 month ago McGrimed 1 month ago OH THE JUNGLE IS A CRUEL DANGEROUS PLACE FOR THEM AND IF THEY STAY THERE THEY WILL BE EXTINCT. STOP LYING AND RATIONALIZING THIS RIDICULOUS LITTLE DREAM OF YOURS TO CUDDLE BABY CHIMPS. THEY SHOULD ALMOST NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE BE HANDLED BY HUMANS. YOU. RUINED. YOUR. BABY'S. LIFE. LIVE WITH IT YOU IGNORANT WORTHLESS SCUM. YOU RUINED ITS LIFE. IT WILL NEVER BE HAPPY WITH YOU BRAINLESS IDIOTS WHO DON'T EVEN KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT CHIMPS. THAT COULD ONLY HAPPEN IN THE WILD OR GOOD SANCTUARY.

McGrimed 1 month ago McGrimed 1 month ago You can rationalize it all you want (and dreamsquare you are a stupid worthless piece of shit who KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT CHIMPS) NO WILD ANIMALS LIVE WELL IN CAPTIVITY. NONE. THERE'S NO SUCH THING. And whatever country you are from, shut your mouth about education because you are very obviously a stupid, STUPID person. Oh an intelligent ape is no problem.. Til he gets full grown with the strength of 4 adult men. Then these people may be mauled to death. AND YOU WILL DESERVE EVERY AGONIZING SECOND.

McGrimed 1 month ago McGrimed 1 month ago Of course you wouldnt listen when they do tell you, because you are too lonely and pathetic to give up your stuffed animal toy/baby replacement. Just because you people are lonely, pathetic, ignorant, and worthless human beings does not give you the right to take a chimp and put it in a completely inappropriate environment. (By the way that smile you all cheered so loudly for.. chimps do that when they're either afraid or confused, NOT when they're happy or amused). Your "pet" does not love you.

McGrimed 1 month ago McGrimed 1 month ago How do you now realize how absolutely ignorant and truly pathetic a person you really are Gina.. That chimp belongs nowhere near your bathroom. It WILL grow up with psychological damage from being imprisoned all its life. You might be ignorant enough to think you've given it a wonderful life in a loving home but you may as well sent it to live on another planet. It will never have a full rich life because you have ruined its life. You can't argue with it. EVERY chimp expert would tell you that.
TheDmoneykid 3 months ago TheDmoneykid 3 months ago lol some of these comments are so stupid. Humans are animals! @dreamsquare123 you are so right they are sub-human they are our cousins. They are family. My cat is my family. People stop hating it's sick.

MrsAlSubaihi 3 months ago MrsAlSubaihi 3 months ago just let him eat the tooth paste

crazyperson3245 4 months ago crazyperson3245 4 months ago @LoriEdenexDavidDuke he is cute but these people better give him to the zoo before he pulls and rips them apart. they can do it having a chimp as a pet is like having a ticking time bomb its just a matter of time.

Congrats on generalizing everyone who lives in one country, you sound just as ignorant as you are trying to make Americans seem.

globalchaos1984 5 months ago globalchaos1984 5 months ago why dnt they leave the lil man alone,

slideshowtelevision 6 months ago slideshowtelevision 6 months ago You are so lucky to have this little guy...even though he will get huge but I am sure he will be a loving companion throughout his years. I just love watching him..so cute.

LoriEdenexDavidDuke 7 months ago 6 LoriEdenexDavidDuke 7 months ago 6 @xlemonbrainx Clothes keep it warm or to keep it from removing the diaper and becoming soiled. Caregivers routinely brush baby teeth or teach the baby to do so, which prevents plaque build up and reduces the incidence of gum and dental problems in the future. For someone who does not believe in raising endangered animals in captivity these things are seen as abnormal. To the caregivers of these animals, if it does not negatively affect the animal's welfare, it is an acceptable practice.

CarolNoe 7 months ago 5 CarolNoe 7 months ago 5 This comment has received too many negative votes show hide

dreamsquare123
And yes, it DOES happen.Quit often actually.Wild animals as well as domesticated animals (cats, dogs, birds etc.)

Hence they care called ANIMALS.Humans are animals as well.Obviously.

xlemonbrainx 7 months ago xlemonbrainx 7 months ago This comment has received too many negative votes show hide

@CarolNoe The chimp is wearing clothes and brushing his teeth with a tooth brush...not a pet?

Riight.

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@dreamsquare123 I need the education yet "u" don't know the correct terms.Hun, get over yourself and your moronic views of Americans.

xlemonbrainx 7 months ago xlemonbrainx 7 months ago @xlemonbrainx It has been illegal to import baby chimpanzees since 1975. Eli was not captured from the wild and his mother was not murdered. Eli's mother was herself born in this country and raised by humans. Eli was her first baby and she had no idea how to care for him. And again, he is not a pet. The wild is a cruel place for chimps...bushmeat, deforestation, human encroachment and disease are taking their tolls and chimps will soon become extinct in the wild. Extinction is forever.

CarolNoe 7 months ago 8 CarolNoe 7 months ago 8 @xlemonbrainx In theory, no animal is meant to be kept in capitivity, so shut your trap. It's all about how you treat and raise the animal. There are crazier animals, such as big cats, that can live perfectly with humans. So an intelligent semi-human ape really isn't a problem. And I'm sure ur american, so its really YOU who needs education.

dreamsquare123 7 months ago 6 dreamsquare123 7 months ago 6 oh it is really cute...



sarfacute 7 months ago 5 sarfacute 7 months ago 5
That's why the video tells you to go to the website. It was posted to raise awareness of this problem,and abusers like her.

Delrocko 5 days ago Delrocko 5 days ago sooooooooooo cute

princessgloss11 6 days ago princessgloss11 6 days ago @MrsAlSubaihi shut the fuck up..

thisguy233 1 week ago thisguy233 1 week ago only fucking white people, and then wonder why animals go on rampages.
i wonder why that one bitch got her face torn off by the chimp.

thisguy233 1 week ago thisguy233 1 week ago First webpage I found was about Animal Abuse. Good job with the internet.

Keall230 1 month ago 2 Keall230 1 month ago 2 @McGrimed....
Obviously you know alot on the subject, this women is sick!!! She has a photography studio in her home where people PAY her to come and have their photos taken with Noah... I don't know why the video says google me cos all it does is slate her. She is an animal abuser!

bahbahblacksheep1605 1 month ago bahbahblacksheep1605 1 month ago It's all worth it though as long as you get to brag to people or put up vids showing everyone how cute your chimp is in overalls and how much fun you're having humanizing and forever confusing the poor little guy. People like you indirectly form a market for the orphans. Second generation born in the U.S. chimp as he may be, its the demand from cretins like you that lets the whole cycle keep going in the first place. Enjoy denying everything I say just so that you can feel ok about your hostage.

McGrimed 1 month ago McGrimed 1 month ago Oh dreamsquare, in theory, some animals ARE supposed to be kept in captivity. Its called thousands of years of breeding and domesticating... You know.. cats, dogs, big apes who can maul you someday, oh wait only uninformed, ignorant people like you think that one works. But hey the wild is a cruel and dangerous place. Better that we make them go against every inbred instinct they have and drive them insane (ask ANY expert) by keeping (imprisoning) them in a home instead of the trees THEY WANT.

McGrimed 1 month ago McGrimed 1 month ago Oh yeah... and its funny to me how I youtube search for "baby chimp abuse" trying to find the story on some Mary Chippenfield lady who got busted.. and from that phrase the very first video that pops up is this one. You people have no idea how pitiful and laughable you really are. People watch things about people like you and they say the exact thing the EXPERTS say.. "These people are extremely delusional and have no idea (or just don't care) of the massive emotional damage done to the ape.

McGrimed 1 month ago McGrimed 1 month ago I hope that he gets big enough to kill at least one of you before they are confiscated (which is coming sooner or later - it is inevitable). That's all you can say about you creatures.. You have no life, you ruined that poor chimps only chance a rich full life with other chimps in the trees, and you did it because youre pathetic losers who don't care what you ruin for them as long as you can dress him in baby clothes and teach him to do cute people stuff. You people are disgusting waste of life.

Congrats on generalizing everyone who lives in one country, you sound just as ignorant as you are trying to make Americans seem.
globalchaos1984 5 months ago globalchaos1984 5 months ago why dnt they leave the lil man alone,

slideshowtelevision 6 months ago slideshowtelevision 6 months ago You are so lucky to have this little guy...even though he will get huge but I am sure he will be a loving companion throughout his years. I just love watching him..so cute.

LoriEdenexDavidDuke 7 months ago 6 LoriEdenexDavidDuke 7 months ago 6 @xlemonbrainx Clothes keep it warm or to keep it from removing the diaper and becoming soiled. Caregivers routinely brush baby teeth or teach the baby to do so, which prevents plaque build up and reduces the incidence of gum and dental problems in the future. For someone who does not believe in raising endangered animals in captivity these things are seen as abnormal. To the caregivers of these animals, if it does not negatively affect the animal's welfare, it is an acceptable practice.

CarolNoe 7 months ago 5 CarolNoe 7 months ago 5 This comment has received too many negative votes show hide

@dreamsquare123
And yes, it DOES happen.Quit often actually.Wild animals as well as domesticated animals (cats, dogs, birds etc.)

Hence they care called ANIMALS.Humans are animals as well.Obviously.

xlemonbrainx 7 months ago xlemonbrainx 7 months ago This comment has received too many negative votes show hide

@CarolNoe The chimp is wearing clothes and brushing his teeth with a tooth brush...not a pet?

Riight.

xlemonbrainx 7 months ago xlemonbrainx 7 months ago This comment has received too many negative votes show hide

@dreamsquare123 I need the education yet "u" don't know the correct terms.Hun, get over yourself and your moronic views of Americans.

xlemonbrainx 7 months ago xlemonbrainx 7 months ago @xlemonbrainx It has been illegal to import baby chimpanzees since 1975. Eli was not captured from the wild and his mother was not murdered. Eli's mother was herself born in this country and raised by humans. Eli was her first baby and she had no idea how to care for him. And again, he is not a pet. The wild is a cruel place for chimps...bushmeat, deforestation, human encroachment and disease are taking their tolls and chimps will soon become extinct in the wild. Extinction is forever.

CarolNoe 7 months ago 8 CarolNoe 7 months ago 8 @xlemonbrainx In theory, no animal is meant to be kept in capitivity, so shut your trap. It's all about how you treat and raise the animal. There are crazier animals, such as big cats, that can live perfectly with humans. So an intelligent semi-human ape really isn't a problem. And I'm sure ur american, so its really YOU who needs education.

dreamsquare123 7 months ago 6 dreamsquare123 7 months ago 6 oh it is really cute...
Doesn't matter.He belong with his kind.He deserves to have al ife destined for him.He is not a human and shouldn't live like one.Chimps don't brush his teeth and athough this video is pass 10 on the adorable scale, he is not living as nature intended him to live.
He may be a legal "pet", but baby chimps who are sold to humans are orphans after their mother's have been MURDERED.That is fact.

@dreamsquare123
He is a ape, not a monkey.

And people think that the chimp will turn dangerous because he is a WILD ANIMAL.He is not meant to be kept in captivity.He is not a human.

Educate yourself.

xlemonbrainx 7 months ago xlemonbrainx 7 months ago Why the fuck do people think the chimp is gonna rip her face off sooner or later? If she cared for him since birth, then the chimp considers her to be his mother. And monkeys are not at all aggressive by nature, so all of you stfu.

dreamsquare123 7 months ago dreamsquare123 7 months ago Comment removed bigdave760 8 months ago Comment removed bigdave760 8 months ago To all the negative comments and misinformation. 1) Noah's mother died, that is not bs, it is verifiable fact 2) Noah is not an illegal pet. It is illegal where he comes from to own them as pets. Only state and federally licensed, experienced professionals are permitted to own them (zoos,sanctuaries, trainers, exhibitors, research facilities, etc) 3) The reason you are told to google Noah's owner is to find more misinformation and lies that the woman hosting this video has spread.

CarolNoe 8 months ago 2 CarolNoe 8 months ago 2 I hope you like your face. Because, when that baby realizes you stole him from his family...he will get angry. I do hope laws will come into place to make this illegal. Chimps are endangered and people like you just make the illegal pet trade o.k. Selfish people like you will have to meet your maker soon enough.
And don't even try to say he was orphaned...that is complete b.s!!!

ahonestwoman 8 months ago ahonestwoman 8 months ago Comment removed ahonestwoman 8 months ago Guess I didn't google her, haha

ZebraJones01 8 months ago ZebraJones01 8 months ago @rrmfg How do you know she's not a scientist?
take the animals away from this woman.

usernameindc 9 months ago usernameindc 9 months ago Why the hell would he brush his teeth, I mean, sooner or later your face will be bitten off by him xD

ViruzNoob14 9 months ago ViruzNoob14 9 months ago Why do you have a rope around his neck?

krystalobrien 11 months ago 2 krystalobrien 11 months ago 2 1.He's a wild animal.
2.Chimps are apes.



xlemonbrainx 11 months ago xlemonbrainx 11 months ago He look so happy giving hugs! he neve going to have carries,

Butterflygmc 11 months ago Butterflygmc 11 months ago Maybe he is better where he is.... are u a monkey?

Butterflygmc 11 months ago Butterflygmc 11 months ago Comment removed xlemonbrainx 11 months ago cute yes a baby yes tame no hes cute now but give hime time soon hell relise hes biger and stronger and if he dont want to do something he want

8ABURKE 11 months ago 8ABURKE 11 months ago i am sure she understands the risk. there is a risk behind all animals, and im sure she is willing to risk it.

alishaaa1192 11 months ago alishaaa1192 11 months ago Disturbing people exploiting an orphaned chimp.
Bonobo3D 1 year ago Bonobo3D 1 year ago
Sorry to say the day will come when he is no longer cute. And it's only a matter of time before he becomes very dangerous.

rrmfg 1 year ago 2 rrmfg 1 year ago 2 Why the hell are you teaching a chimp to brush its teeth?

chad11950 1 year ago 2 chad11950 1 year ago 2 he is soo sooo sooo cutie lil baby chimp

ladybadrage 1 year ago 4 ladybadrage 1 year ago 4 7 years later... your face is a big hole.

ViruzNoob14 1 year ago 3 ViruzNoob14 1 year ago 3 he is so cute.
Pogen1cp 1 year ago 3 Pogen1cp 1 year ago 3 cute chimp. hopefully he wont go into a rage and mutilate your face l
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Blood Types of Chimpanzees, Bonobos, Orangutans, and Gorillas

In April 2005, Mumbali, an adolescent female gorilla, was dying of a mysterious infection at Lincoln Park Zoo.
In a last-ditch effort to save her life, veterinarian and keepers anesthetized both Mumbali and Kwan, a male gorilla, then laid them side by side to send Kwan's blood directly from his arm into hers.

It was a crude procedure, similar to the way transfusions were done for humans before the blood bank was invented at Cook County Hospital in 1937.

But there was little to go on in the veterinary literature, which had nothing about whether or not gorillas have different A-B-O blood groups like humans or if they needed to have blood matched to their own for a successful transfusion.
"It's one of the most basic pieces of knowledge we need for the care of our animals, and it simply wasn't there," ape-keeper Jill Moyse said.

Mumbali died despite their emergency interventions. Afterward, as keepers and veterinarians met to grieve her passing, Moyse told them Mumbali's death "could only make sense if we can make something good come out of it."

Five years after that impromptu discussion, Moyse and Kathryn Gamble, the zoo's chief veterinarian, have created an entirely new body of literature on great ape hematology. Just as importantly, they have produced an international registry to record the blood types of captive apes on four continents.

The registry represents all four great ape species — gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees and bonobos, which are sometimes called "pygmy chimps." In North America, it encompasses nearly every healthy male and female adult of the species who could donate blood if another ape of its species with the same blood type needed a transfusion.

"You don't want to transfuse the wrong type of blood because a transfusion reaction can make a bad situation even worse," said Gamble, who recently published the project's research in the journal Zoo Biology.
"These are small populations," she said, "so emergency calls for blood are pretty rare. But when you need it, you really, desperately need it."

Before the project began, the only species of great apes with known blood groups were chimpanzees, the majority of which have Type A blood. That is known because chimps are frequently used as stand-ins for humans in medical research.

To learn more, the Lincoln Park project turned to a Danish company, Eldon Biologicals, which a few years ago revolutionized blood typing with small, chemically coated cards. A small smear of blood on the cards almost instantaneously reveals the donor's blood type.

Gamble and Moyse sent the cards out to North American and European zoos with ape collections and to African and Asian sanctuaries that rehabilitate injured and abandoned wild apes to restore them to the wilderness.

"Everybody we contacted liked the idea of what we are doing," Moyse said.

Because U.S. customs has strict controls about importing blood products, sanctuaries that lacked personnel to do the card analysis could not send the cards to Chicago, so Moyse sent them digital cameras to photograph the completed cards, e-mailing the photo for analysis at Lincoln Park.

Once the cards went out, it was several years before most eligible apes in the covered institutions had their analyses done.
Getting a blood sample from apes is no easy task. Though the test needs only a tiny blood smear, most big apes won't willingly undergo a jab of a sharp needle for a blood sample.

Because anesthesia is risky, keepers won't put animals down just for a blood sample. They do, however, anesthetize each of their adult apes roughly every two years for thorough physicals, so the project had to wait to get its blood.
As the blood typing cards returned to Chicago from around the world, Gamble said they are revealing new information about the great apes.

The project has verified that the blood of different ape species isn't interchangeable between species or humans, she said. It found that bonobos have only Type A blood, while orangutans have all four types, A, B, AB and O.AB and O.
"Gorillas so far are somewhat confusing and frustrating," Gamble said. "Although all of their cards came back as Type O, it is clear from genetic evaluation from our collaborators at the University of Chicago that gorillas don't, in fact, have all the same blood type."

After Cook County started the world's first blood bank, the idea spread quickly, saving uncounted millions of lives in World War II and opening postwar development of surgical procedures like open-heart surgery and organ transplants.
Thomas Meehan, who heads the gorilla Species Survival Plan veterinary board for all North American zoo gorillas, said the ape blood- type registry could do for apes what the blood bank did for humans.

"There have been times when we have done procedures, like brain surgery, when we had to remind the surgeons that they couldn't call down to the blood bank for another bag of blood," Meehan said.

In particular, it may result in new, lifesaving surgical procedures for apes, as the registry allows for blood supplies that "will enable us to utilize more advanced procedures" he said.


the meantime, Moyse is beginning to experiment with getting apes to voluntarily give blood when keepers ask for it, working with Kwan, the male gorilla blood donor in the failed attempt to save Mumbali.

"Kwan volunteers to put his arm into a PVC blood sleeve and he allows us to manipulate his arm and stick a (small) 26 gauge needle in his vein for a minute or so, and we're trying to build that time up so that eventually we can get significant blood amounts," Moyse said. "We reward him with tomatoes, fruit and juice that he is fond of."
Three years ago, Moyse also went to Africa to further train ape sanctuary workers.

"They were superexcited to learn the blood typing and how to do transfusions," she said. "They see a lot of animals come into them nearly dead from wounds made by poachers and bush meat hunters, and now the sanctuaries have these tools that might finally save some of these animals."

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Guangzhon Zoo is feeding Human Breast Milk to a Baby Lion-Tailed Macaque Monkey

A female baby lion-tailed macaque drinks human breast milk from a feeding incubator at the Guangzhou Zoo, Guangdong Province on December 10. The monkey, classified as a threatened species, on the IUN(International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List, was born on November 3, but its mother rejected it.
"It was born thin, and because its mother did not feed it, the situation was very dangerous," said a zoo worker surnamed Yang who looked after the baby.

When zoo employees discussed how to feed it artificially, a vet who was a 2-month-old father at that time thought that his wife's breast milk might be helpful. His wife agreed. "When my husband told me his idea, I was happy to try, hoping my breast milk would help the baby monkey grow healthy." She used a breast pump to store milk and her husband took it to the zoo. The monkey is thriving now and another zoo worker who recently gave birth is also donating some of her milk.

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Wikipedia's list of Ape Actors

Um... They have my ex-chimp, Mikey listed on here. Mikey now lives at the Little Rock Zoo with his blood half brother, Louie. Both were purchased from Connie Casey-Braun of the Missouri Primate Foundation. I have to laugh everytime I type that world "foundation"
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Doc Antle Charged in Tiger Escape-Tiger Preservation Station

I don't normally post anything that doesn't pertain to Primates, However....... I have come in contact with Antel more times than I'd like to remember. Not only does he buy and sell Primates but also sells and dumps baby tigers that aren't perfect. (personal experience seeing 3 of his cubs locked in a trailer for months). He uses his primates and tigers for commercials though says he is a preservation. He allows people to handle the small tigers to get their photos taken when IN FACT these animals should be with their moms, not hung onto like a stuffed animal. Talk about dangerous!!!!!!

Boy does he have the public snowed.........................

I can't even imagine being at his place when this happened! The fine he got, well, with all of the money this guy has, that's nothing to him, it's like a 5 dollar bill. Jail time would have nice.

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August 29, 2010 Miami, FL: Visitors to Miami's Jungle Island stampeded over each other to avoid an escaped, 3 yr old, 500 lb. tiger named Mahesh. A monkey escaped while being transported through the zoo and 500 lb. Mahesh bounded over the 14-foot fence into the public area according to the Miami Herald. The attraction's three big cats -- which include a liger and a white tiger -- have been confined to a "night kennel," while the park investigates. "We were really scared. There were people crying,'' Miami mom Dorothy Evans told the Herald, adding that people knocked each other down as they sprinted toward the shelter. "People were running for their lives," Larry Rhodes, 46, of Pompano Beach, told the Sun Sentinel. Miami Fire Rescue Lt. Ignatius Carroll told the Herald that several people were injured while running, including a mother who fell on top of her 15-month old baby. Another guest was taken to a Miami hospital after suffering a panic attack. Bhagavan (Kevin) Antle, who also owns T.I.G.E.R.S. in Myrtle Beach, SC and who is the owner of Mahesh, was charged with one count of maintaining captive wildlife in an unsafe condition, resulting in threats to public safety. Park owner Bern M. Levine was charged with two second-degree misdemeanors for conditions resulting in the animals' escape. The charges for both men have a maximum penalty of $500, FWC officer Pino said.

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DeYoung Family Zoo has a baby Chimpanzee?

Ok Readers, after looking at both of these links, you tell me if this baby Chimpanzee is a pet.
This "SO CALLED" zoo has no older Chimpanzees, though in the video a woman is holding a baby chimpanzee. This baby is wearing clothes!!!!!!!! Gee I wonder where she bought this baby? Maybe at the Missouri Primate Foundation, with Connie Casey-Braun. Chimpanzees value at 65,000.00 for a females and 55,000.00 for males, ( I know because each of my ex-chimps were 45,000.00 a piece) I don't think someone just gave this baby to them. It's not like we are in Africa and there's poaching. You must really think we are stupid.

Zoos, the last time I heard do NOT buy baby chimps, and when their adult chimpanzees have babies they allow them to raise them unless there are complications.

So this so-called zoo is feeding into the breeding of chimpanzees and the ripping of the babies off of their mothers.

I also noticed that there were photos on their website of baby monkeys wrapped up in blankets, people holding them and exploiting them and being fed human food. Come on DeYoung Family who do you think your fooling? This may have worked years ago but the public is becoming aware of these awful pratices. We, the public have heard thousands of times that the mother won't take care of them and they had to be hand reared, that's a bunch of crap. You should be ashamed of yourself calling yourself a zoo when you take baby Primates away from their mothers. Shame shame!

Well Chimpcare here's another pet Chimp to add to your list. As we all know that list will always grow and the pet chimpanzees will never stop being ripped and sold until Connie Casey-Braun is no longer with us.

Anyone that lives in this area, please don't contribute to the horrible life this baby chimp and monkeys will lead by paying to go in and see them.


Video here
Their Website Here

Comments from the viewers of the video
Your white trash ignorance is showing! You have no right taking a baby from its mother for you to have a trophy toy! When this chimp grows up what are you going to do the? Have you done your research? Do you have any idea what you are doing? Shame on you and the outfit that sold you this infant. I am so disgusted.

Chimpanzee-Baboon Differences

When wild chimpanzees want a protein snack, they may choose to go after termites. The apes’ method of termite-hunting is cultural—that is, dependent on ape-to-ape learning in the specific population in which they live. Chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania, for instance, “fish” for termites by making a wand tool and then sticking it down into the termite mound. Chimpanzees in the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo, by contrast, first push a puncturing tool with their feet into the mound and only then use finer manual skills to probe with tools into the termite chambers.

Baboons supplement their diet with termites, too. Watching them leap into the air when the termites fly out of the mound shows they’re enthusiastic termite consumers. But the baboons don’t use tools to hunt these insects. In fact, they’re stuck waiting around for the termites’ seasonal flights from the mound, and then catch the insects by hand. In other words, the monkeys’ diet is constrained by the termites’ reproductive biology, and the chimpanzees play an active role, aided by technology, in tapping into a nutritious food source on their own schedule.

This chimpanzee-baboon difference illustrates what some primatologists call the “cognitive watershed”: the idea that, as a pattern, our closest living relatives, the great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans), are more highly skilled at problem solving and complex thinking than are the monkeys (baboons, macaques, howler monkeys, squirrel monkeys, and their relatives).

The cognitive watershed idea is best considered a hypothesis rather than a robust conclusion. After all, monkeys, like baboons—and vervets and macaques—show keen intelligence in their own ways. When vervet monkey A aggresses against vervet monkey B, B will be highly likely to carry out what’s called “kin-based redirected aggression.” That is, B may soon go after A’s relative and punish the relative for A’s transgression. That shows abstract thinking about monkey relatedness.

But the great apes seem to go even further than this. They show evidence of an elaborated theory of mind—an ability to take into account that their social partners may have access to different stores of knowledge than they themselves do. Ape tool behavior once again provides a good example. In Cote d’Ivoire, a mother chimpanzee is likely to facilitate her youngster’s learning of nut-cracking in a number of ways directly related to what that youngster does or doesn’t already know about bringing together nuts, hammers, and anvils. The mother adjusts her behavior to the visible skill level of the child, implicitly recognizing that she herself knows more than the youngster and that the youngster’s abilities shift over time.

Capuchin monkeys of South America push against the cognitive watershed idea quite directly because they forage aided by tools in complex ways that are quite unusual for monkeys. Of course, caution is required on the part of scientists who compare the cognition of two groups of nonhuman primates like this—especially because we humans may tend to rate apparently humanlike thinking as the most complicated of all.

Still, the cognitive watershed is a useful perspective because it helps primatologists think up experiments and predictions to test, and helps us organize how we approach potentially key distinctions within the primate order.

Barbara King is a professor of anthropology at The College of William & Mary and the author of Being With Animals and the Friday Animal Blog.

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Dodge has removed Chimpanzee campaign

Some other ad agencies have sworn off using apes in their commercials. Dodge removed a chimpanzee from its “tent event” commercials, and canceled print ads featuring a chimpanzee, over the summer, the Tribune reported.

CareerBuilder says the American Humane Association watched their commercial as it was filmed. The firm, which is partially owned by the Tribune, says as of now, it plans to go ahead with airing the commercial during the Super Bowl in 2011.

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Two new baby Orangutans at the Chaffee Zoo

The first came on Halloween and the second arrived just six days ago. Friday Action News was invited to pay a first visit to both moms and their little babies.
Labu was the first to arrive on Halloween some 7 weeks ago. He needed to bottle fed but not anymore.

Mom,  Sara, is now producing plenty of nourishment for her little boy.
"This is her first time she's been able to raise an infant, nurse it and raise and take it all through its growing up period," Chaffee Zoo Primate Keeper Lynn Meyers said.
The zoo's second Orang mom, Saibo, has had no trouble with her first baby. A little girl Ndari. Both moms patiently ignored our visit with them.
For eight weeks seven zoo keepers have been working rotating 12 hour shifts around the clock and sleeping on a cot in a vacant orangutan 'bedroom'.

They want to insure the health and safety of first one and now two endangered babies.

Keeper Shane Spears considers it an rare opportunity. "It's pretty amazing. It's kind of a one of those once in a lifetime, once in a career opportunities to be able to care for a baby orangutan, to hold it, take care of it, be part of its life."

The Chaffee Zoo participates in the 'Species Survival Plan'. Its purpose is to increase a healthy and diverse captive wild animal population and that includes endangered orangutans of Indonesia.

The genes of these little ones will one day contribute to other healthy orangutans.

"I have never in my life gotten better Christmas presents."

These rare baby apes won't join their father out in the public exhibit for a quite while.

When they do, their moms aren't likely to put them down. Orangutans carry their offspring everywhere for five full months.

In the meantime babies and moms will get their outdoor time in a safe, behind-the-scenes open air enclosure. But come spring and warmer weather they'll make their debut.
"A wonderful Christmas gift for the staff and all the visitors who will come see them. It's gonna be a fun year watching these babies grow up."

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Pearl the Pet Marmoset Monkey can't stay at the Detroit Zoo

DETROIT, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Officials at the Detroit Zoo said they are seeking a primate sanctuary as a new home for a pet monkey seized by suburban police.


Scott Carter, chief life sciences officer at the Detroit Zoo, said he is looking at sanctuaries as possible new homes for Pearl, a marmoset native to South America that had been living with a Southfield family for the past three years, the Detroit Free Press reported Thursday.
Police said the primate was seized from the home Dec. 6 and the owners, who were not named and are not facing charges despite illegally keeping the exotic pet in the city, willingly surrendered Pearl due to possible plans to move in the near future.


Carter said exotic pets often have difficulty adjusting to lives with others of their own species. However, he said primates do best living in pairs or groups.
"People see a baby monkey and think it's the cutest thing they've ever seen, but then it grows up and it's not the monkey they thought it would be," he said.

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Happy Holiday to all of the Apes in the World

Here's hoping that 2011 will bring you happiness, safety, companionship and no pain.

Great Photos of Chimpanzees

For anyone that is doing a school project about Wild Chimpanzees and their behaviour this is a great site for photos
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Great Photos of Chimpanzees

For anyone that is doing a school project about Wild Chimpanzees and their behaviour this is a great site for photos
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