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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]
Caregivers – about 20 staff members - at the Center for Great Apes stayed inside with the primates all night and didn’t come out until 7 a.m. on Thursday, said Patti Ragan, founder of the ...
By 2003, Bubbles had matured into a large and aggressive adult chimpanzee unsuitable as a pet, like many captive chimpanzees, and was sent to a California animal trainer. When the trainer closed his operation in 2004, Bubbles was moved to the Center for Great Apes, a sanctuary in Wauchula, Florida, where he has lived since 2005.
Sandra (born February 14, 1986, in Rostock Zoo in East Germany) is an orangutan, currently living in the Center for Great Apes in Florida after being moved from the Buenos Aires Zoo in 2019. Sandra was involved in a historic legal case in Argentina over whether an orangutan could receive legal protections as a "nonhuman person."
However, in July 2021, six of the seven chimpanzees were removed from the Missouri Primate Facility and relocated to the Center for Great Apes in Wauchula, Florida, PETA wrote in a press release.
Image credits: HBO. Tonka will celebrate his 33rd birthday at the Fort Pierce sanctuary, which extends 150 acres (approximately 61 hectares) and is inhabited by 220 chimpanzees that live in 12 ...
They then made a second trip for 8 more chimps from the Waystation for a 2,600 mile journey to the Center for Great Apes in Florida. [17] Later in 2021, Project Chimps assisted with the relocation of 6 chimps from the Missouri Primate Foundation under the operation of Tonia Haddix and delivered the chimps to the Center for Great Apes in Florida.
Whatever you think about Florida’s version of Big Foot, Sasquatch and the Loch Ness Monster, you have to admit the Skunk Ape is interesting. So let’s go through the Miami Herald archives and ...