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Simon and Peggy's mission to rescue chimps started in 1978. At around this time they became aware that baby chimps were being smuggled into Spain from Africa to be sold on the black market. These babies were then purchased by photographers who used them as props for the tourist industry on Spanish beaches.
Casey bought two chimps and bred them, selling babies for $40,000 up to $65,000. [10] [11] She started a business, Chimparty, renting out baby chimps for children's birthday parties, nursing homes, and TV and film productions. [12] In 1992, one of the chimps owned by Casey bit off her husband's nose.
Baby chimps are called infants, not surprising since scientists have found that chimps share 98.8% of their DNA with human babies. Had Natalia's baby lived, she would have clung to her mother for ...
The Center for Great Apes is an animal sanctuary for great apes located east of Wauchula, Florida.Founded as a nonprofit organization in 1993, the sanctuary has about 70 orangutans and chimpanzees who were formerly used in entertainment, scientific research, or the exotic pet trade. [2]
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The baby’s mom, Alice, gave birth to the newborn Dec. 29 “in front of astonished zoo visitors,” the zoo said in a Feb. 6 news release. Alice had an eight-month pregnancy.
Carole Cooney Noon (born Carole Jane Cooney; July 13, 1949 – May 2, 2009) was an American anthropologist and primatologist best known for founding (in 1997) Save the Chimps, a Florida non-profit chimpanzee sanctuary that is the largest such sanctuary in the world as of 2009.
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