by Caitlyn Hume | Feb 28, 2020 | Food & Enrichment
At the PRC, we strive to give the chimpanzees an environment that mimics activities they would experience in the wild. Chimpanzees naturally forage feed, meaning they dig and look through materials in search of food. We replicate this with a twice-daily group scatter...
by Caitlyn Hume | Sep 8, 2019 | Maggie, Mandy, The Monkeys
We believe that Maggie may have both moor macaque and black-crested macaque genes. It is not uncommon for pet monkey breeders to disregard genetic differentiations between species. Maggie is a sweet, chatty girl who was rescued by the PRC from a private home in...
by Caitlyn Hume | Apr 22, 2019 | Ike
Ike arrived at the PRC in 1996 with a group of 6 other young chimpanzees rescued from a now-closed biomedical research lab in New York (LEMSIP). Ike and his chimpanzee friends were all under the age of 5 years old when they arrived at the PRC. These youngsters were...
by Caitlyn Hume | Jan 19, 2019 | Hope
Meet Hope, one of two Japanese snow macaques here at the PRC. This sweet girl was a pet for 14 years until her former owner decided that she would be happier surrounded by other monkeys. When she arrived at the PRC, Hope quickly acclimated to living in a sanctuary...
by Caitlyn Hume | Jun 28, 2018 | Bailey, Jane, Sawyer
Jane is a rhesus macaque who is one of two primates born at the Primate Rescue Center—despite our preventative measures. Each non-human male primate living at the sanctuary undergoes a vasectomy procedure by our veterinarian to prevent births in captivity. We still...
