Posts Tagged ‘chimps outdoors’
Coronavirus Response Update
As the threat of the Coronavirus continues, Project Chimps’ executive director, Ali Crumpacker, outlines more of the measures we are taking to ensure the short-term and long-term health of the chimps and our Project Chimps family.
Here are some of the things we are doing now, with the caveat that the situation is extremely fluid and that some of these actions may be revised in the days and weeks to come, in keeping with government and industry recommendations.
Read MoreChimps Leo & Ray’s Excellent Adventure
The day started out routinely, with our team checking on the
chimps, feeding their breakfast and cleaning their enclosures. But then the radios start squawking as the chatter between caregivers becomes an excited cacophony.
The message finally became clear: “Leo is outside!”
Chimpanzee Caregiver Samantha Jones recounts the story of former research chimps Leo and Ray’s brave first steps into the forest at Project Chimps.
Read MoreJune 2018 News: What Koko Taught us About Communication
In our June News, Ali Crumpacker reflects on what Koko the gorilla taught us about communication, as many mourned her passing. Read about Gertrude and Jason’s second encounter in our chimpanzee introduction program; and meet our new board members Amber Nash and Helen & Simon Law.
Read MoreMay 2018 News: The Gift and Opportunity of Observation
Project Chimps Executive Director Ali Crumpacker describes her experiences with wildlife observation in Africa and at Project Chimps. In this issue we also welcome our first intern, Fred Rubio, and recap Hercules and Leo’s first experience in our outdoor Peachtree Habitat. Read more in our May news.
Read MoreHercules, Leo and Group go Outdoors for the First Time at Project Chimps
Hercules and Leo were the first two chimpanzees in their social group to explore Project Chimps’ forested outdoor Peachtree Habitat on May 8, 2018. It was an important day in the lives of these well-known former research chimpanzees and a new beginning in their lives of retirement at Project Chimps. Hercules, Leo and their seven…
Read MoreProject Chimps Earns Accreditation by Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS)
February 7, 2018, (Washington DC) – The Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS), the only globally recognized organization providing standards for identifying legitimate animal sanctuaries, awarded Accredited status to Project Chimps as of February 1, 2018. Project Chimps is the newest chimpanzee sanctuary in the United States and provides lifelong care to former research chimpanzees…
Read MoreFebruary 2018 News: More Chimps Outdoors at Project Chimps
In our February 2018 update, we describe the first day in our outdoor habitat for Marlon and his group of seven chimpanzees. Project Chimps’ executive director, Ali Crumpacker, also shares her experiences working with wild and exotic animals.
Read MoreExperiencing the Outdoors
There wasn’t a dry human eye in the sanctuary on Tuesday, as we celebrated the opening of the new Peachtree Habitat and the first release of chimpanzees outdoors at Project Chimps. Lance’s expression, above, says it all. This was the first time in their lives these former research chimps could look up at an unobstructed…
Read MoreJanuary 2018 News: Chimps Outdoors for the First Time!
There wasn’t a dry human eye in the sanctuary yesterday, as we celebrated the opening of the new, six-acre, Peachtree Habitat and the first release of chimpanzees outdoors at Project Chimps. In our January 2018 news, we also look at all of the exciting initiatives planned at Project Chimps in 2018!
Read MoreFormer Research Chimps Explore Outdoors for the First Time
Research chimpanzees who have spent their entire lives in captivity explored an outdoor forest habitat for the first time today. Project Chimps, a 236-acre sanctuary for chimpanzees formerly used in biomedical research in laboratories, released the chimps to freely explore a six-acre, forested habitat in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Georgia. Nine female and…
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