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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]
Damage from Hurricane Milton at The Center for Great Apes in Wauchula. Taken Oct. 10, 2024. Caregivers – about 20 staff members - at the Center for Great Apes stayed inside with the primates all ...
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.
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.
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."
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 ...
Wauchula Municipal Airport is a public-use airport located 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of the central business district. Center for Great Apes is a permanent sanctuary for rescued orangutans and chimpanzees. The only hospital in Wauchula is AdventHealth Wauchula. [13]
Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to them to change their behavior, a new study shows.