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Chimpanzee artwork in the zoo. The North Carolina Zoo is home to a large collection of art, primarily sculpture. Also murals, mosaics, and paintings. Primarily depictions of animals and their habitats, the artwork uses a variety of materials including marble, steel, bronze, fiberglass, limestone, glass, cement, and others. The Zoo's art is ...
Ham (July 1957 – January 19, 1983), a chimpanzee also known as Ham the Chimp and Ham the Astrochimp, was the first great ape launched into space. On January 31, 1961, Ham flew a suborbital flight on the Mercury-Redstone 2 mission, part of the U.S. space program's Project Mercury .
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(oldest wild chimpanzee) [9] 8 Garbo/Grandma [10] F 10 December 1953 c. 15 November 2015 61 years, c. 340 days United States, Chimp Haven: 9 Jimmie [11] F 1960 Living 64 years Netherlands, Royal Burgers' Zoo: 10 Fifi [12] [13] F c. May 1947 19 July 2007 c. 60 years, 2 months Australia, Taronga Zoo: 11 Coco [14] F c. 1952 2012 c. 60 years United ...
Peter the chimp was transferred from a zoo in Leicestershire.
Zoo visitors at Chester Zoo in northern England recently got a shocking surprise: They watched a chimpanzee give birth to a rare baby.. The baby’s mom, Alice, gave birth to the newborn Dec. 29 ...
The zoo was the first in the United States to put an aye-aye on display, and after losing its last aye-aye in 1993, it finally acquired another in 2011 – a six-year old transferred from the Duke Lemur Center in North Carolina. [40] The zoo is one of only a dozen in North America to house and breed bonobos (also known as pygmy chimpanzees), an ...
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