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Black Pine torn over chimp
Ideally it needs 7 but it first must build sanctuary
Angela Mapes Turner – The Journal Gazette
ALBION – America’s chimpanzees could use another safe haven.
That’s why Black Pine Animal Park’s leadership wants to keep the sanctuary’s chimpanzee, Tarzan, but only if he can be among friends.
Intelligent and social, chimpanzees do best in captivity when they are [...]
Zoo chimp has hand surgery
By News Sentinel – knoxnews.com
University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine staffers have performed surgery on Binti, a 25-year-old female chimpanzee at the Knoxville Zoo, to stabilize four broken metacarpal bones in her hand.
Earlier this week, zookeepers observed Binti holding a swollen hand close to her body. Radiographs revealed four broken metacarpal bones between her [...]
Zoo chimp “regifts” present by throwing it at little girl
Christopher Collette – wtsp.com
Tampa, Florida – A little girl is OK after being hit by an orange thrown by a chimpanzee at Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo.
This incident happened during the zoo’s “Presents for Primates” event. Zookeepers tossed wrapped presents filled with food in the chimps’ and other primates’ exhibits.
Angela Belcher, the assistant curator of primates [...]
Baby chimp named at Little Rock Zoo
Amanda Terrebonne – todaysthv.com
After more than 500 entries and 1,000 votes, the new name for the baby chimpanzee at the Little Rock Zoo is Kendi. The chimp was born Aug. 29.
The name Kendi was submitted by Vicki Pennington of Junction City, AR.
Representatives of the zoo say animal keepers usually name new arrivals, but the staff [...]
Bristol Zoo Gardens appeals for your memories
Bristol Zoo Gardens is this week launching a project to capture peoples’ memories of the Zoo from years gone by.
The appeal is being led by the Zoo’s learning department, ahead of the Zoo’s 175th anniversary in 2011. The aim is to create an oral history archive to preserve peoples’ memories of the Zoo for future [...]
Orissa zoo gears up for birth of chimpanzee
Bhubaneswar, (IANS) The officials at Orissa’s Nandankanan zoo Monday said they have ensured a healthy environment for the chimpanzee who is expected to give birth to her baby early next month.
“We are providing special diets to the pregnant chimp. Our zoo doctors are monitoring her health from time to time,” senior zoo official S. Mohapatra [...]
Facts About Cruelty to Animals From PETA and Anjelica Huston Persuade R&R Partners Never to Use Apes in Ads
For Immediate Release:
September 24, 2009
Contact:
Kristie Phelps 757-622-7382
Las Vegas — After reviewing information supplied by PETA–including a video narrated by film star Anjelica Huston showing that chimpanzees and orangutans used in advertising are removed from their mothers as infants and routinely abused in behind-the-scenes training sessions (trainers have been caught beating and kicking animals)–Las Vegas based [...]
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Oregon Zoo plans memorial for Charlie the chimp
by Katy Muldoon, The Oregonian
The Oregon Zoo plans Tuesday to celebrate the life of Charlie the chimpanzee, who died unexpectedly Thursday at 39.
A memorial, scheduled for 11 a.m. near the zoo’s concert lawn, will include dancers, traditional West African drumming and, at a primate keeper’s suggestion, a wishing well, which fits with the African tradition [...]
L.A. Zoo officials ordered to report to city council committee over USDA investigation into elephant, chimp deaths
Carla Hall – LA Times
City Councilman Tony Cardenas has ordered Los Angeles Zoo officials to appear before a council committee to discuss the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s investigation into the deaths of an elephant and a chimpanzee at the zoo three years ago.
The USDA, which enforces the Animal Welfare Act, cited the zoo for failing [...]
Zoo’s ‘intolerable cruelty’
Ingrid Oellermann – The Witness
CHARLES the chimpanzee, of the Natal Zoological Gardens and Lion Park at Umlaas Road, probably suffered chronic pain from his four broken canine teeth. Another chimp, Jessica, was “emaciated” — both animals had no access to water. Billy, who features in television advertisements, was kept in isolation in a cage from [...]
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Aw. These Animals are absolutely adorable. && Fer one to reach that age is (: AH-MAY-ZING 
oh, this is sad. :( but it's amazing for it to reach that age! 
Its not simply a case of In Defense of Animals vs. The Saint Louis Zoo.
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This is not a picture of a large-billed reed warbler. Good story, just the wrong pic. 
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