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Kareem

Kareem July 2021

Kareem is one of our more well-known chimps because of his size and his gentle personality. Kareem is a great alpha that only uses his size to remind his group mates that he is in charge. He loves to play with all his groupmates but mostly plays with the younger girls of the group. He also loves to play with his caregivers. We know he is ready to play when he does a big foot stomp to show us he is ready for a game of chase, which of course we oblige.

Kareem is featured on his very own pin! Get yours today.

Kareem is also featured in his very own children’s book, Hope for Kareem.

About the book: Kareem was a happy baby chimp, playing with his friends at the Universal Primate Lab. But one day, he’s taken to a place where he’s put through medical experiments that hurt him. With the help of his friend Hope, a caterpillar, Kareem finds the strength to survive this terrible ordeal and find a safe home at Project Chimps. Order online today or visit our gift shop to purchase in person on site!

Learn more about the book in this video interview with the authors HERE.

Buy the book from Green Kid’s Club HERE.

 

Chimp Chatter Featuring Kareem

Positive Reinforcement Training – PRT with an EKG

December 10, 2020

If you know anything about chimps, you know you can’t make a chimp do anything it doesn’t want to do! If you need to, for example, listen to Kareem’s heartbeat with a stethoscope, that is absolutely not happening unless Kareem wants you to. This is where Positive Reinforcement Training, or PRT, comes into play.

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The Work/Play Balance of a Chimp Monarch

June 15, 2020

It’s no secret that Kareem is a talented leader of his group of 14 chimpanzees, any of his caregivers can testify to that.

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One Chimp’s Journey to Sanctuary – part three

December 30, 2018

Remarkably, because of the special soul that he is, Kareem was somehow able to survive, despite the horrible conditions and unforgivable neglect to which he was subjected at Coulston Foundation. But his journey in research was not over.

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One Chimp’s Journey to Sanctuary – part two

December 27, 2018

Kareem’s story starts with the heart-wrenching fact that, like many chimpanzees who were born in research facilities, he was pulled from his mother at just a few days old. It’s difficult to think about the devastation that Kareem’s mother must have endured when her baby was pulled from her loving arms. Caregivers swaddled him in diapers and placed him in the lab’s chimpanzee nursery.

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One Chimp’s Journey to Sanctuary – part one

December 22, 2018

Kareem was only 5 years old and living at the now-closed Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP) in New York City. It was 1994 and a compassionate caregiver named Nancy was trying to lure Kareem back into his small cage after a day of innocent play in the lab’s nursery playroom. Kareem was tired of going back into a tiny cage each time his play sessions were over, so he held back.

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Kareem FACTS

Male

Date of Birth

12/30/1988

Arrival Date

11/07/2018

Fun Facts

  • Kareem is the largest chimpanzee here at 180 pounds!

Gift Request

Kareem focuses on his muscles and he’d request more protein powder to ensure he stays fit to maintain his alpha position in his group.

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