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Project Harvest Fall Garden
With the crisp air and falling leaves, it’s clearly fall around here. Bundled up in our Project Chimps hoodies and clump-clumping along in our boots, we trek out to water the babies. I don’t mean the chimps but our well cared-for seedlings in Project Harvest (and sometimes the bees too) in the fall garden.
Read MoreHealth Update: Armond (November 2021)
With a case such as Armond’s, there is little we can do to reverse those decades he spent in a confined space. Despite having access to decent size enclosures at the New Iberia lab for the years leading up to his retirement to the Blue Ridge Mountains, and despite now having access to multi-story villa and multi-acre yard.
Read MoreQuite an Earful
Of all the abnormal behaviors that chimps perform, Genesis certainly has an interesting one. She loves to put things in her ears. She even jumps up and down to make the objects move around inside. She’s quite an earful!
Read MoreGirl Scouts Advocate for Chimps
Meet the Girl Scouts of troop 15543. They took a tour of Project Chimps in August. They are doing their Silver Award project, the highest award a Cadette can earn, at Project Chimps. The scouts are also using what they learned on their tour to advocate for chimps. How are they doing that? Read on to find out!
Read MoreProject Chimps Supports Chimp SAFE
Meet Dr. Tina Cloutier Barbour, director of Chimp SAFE. We talked to her about how Project Chimps is working to help Chimp SAFE conserve wild chimpanzees and protect them from extinction. Interested in learning how you can help chimps?
Read MoreWildfire Prepardness
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire… and we have a plan for what to do in the case of one! Emergency preparedness can save human lives, structures, and of course, the chimpanzees at Project Chimps. Are you prepared in case of an emergency?
Read MoreCovid Vaccines for the Chimps
Project Chimps is the first sanctuary to vaccinate chimps against Covid-19 with experimental covid vaccines developed by Zoetis, a veterinary medicine producer. This vaccine has been donated to zoos and sanctuaries across the country by Zoetis. Project Chimps, like other institutions requested these vaccines to protect the animals in their care.
Read MoreThe Hole in His Chinny-chin-chin
Jacob had a four-and-a-half-inch wound that started at his upper chin and extended to his lower chin around his lips. The wound pierced all the way through his lip, creating a hole in his chin. Found out how he handled this injury!
Read MoreAn Unexpected Find – Interning as a chimpanzee blogger
Violet worked as communications intern for the summer of 2021. She wrote blogs about medical conditions at the sanctuary and was excited to combine her love of animals with a passion for understanding their personalities. It was a fantastic experience.
Read MorePee, Please – It’s Urine Month!
It’s actually pretty cool to work somewhere that celebrates urine. Believe it or not, pee is really an amazing thing! Every urine excretion you make is like a report card from your body, sending in a bunch of grades from most of its complicated systems via a few ounces of liquid.
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