Eating Green

Eating Green

The Primate Rescue Center is surrounded by lush green landscape that provides a shaded and secluded setting. Not only does this provide a peaceful sanctuary home for the residents, it offers access to lots of yummy browse for their diet! The bulk of the primates diet...
Meet our Winter 2019 Intern

Meet our Winter 2019 Intern

Over the years, the Primate Rescue Center’s Internship Program has grown into an incredible teaching and learning opportunity for interested individuals from across the globe. Interns become immersed in nearly all daily tasks that occur at the sanctuary, learning...
Boy Meets Girl

Boy Meets Girl

Over the summer, the PRC happily welcomed a friendly new face to the family. Opal is a 7 year old female long-tailed macaque. She was rescued from a pet situation in Indiana, thanks to the generous help from Peaceable Primates Sanctuary. Opal spent some time at...
Unbreakable Bond

Unbreakable Bond

Zulu Chimpanzee is a former pet from Georgia who arrived at the PRC in 1998 as part of the Dahlonega Five. In this former pet situation, Zulu, along with Donald, Hazel, Victoria, and Debbie, was confined to a small, windowless concrete bunker for more than a decade...
Staying warm!

Staying warm!

Winter is in full effect in Kentucky! With temperatures dropping into the single digits recently, helping our residents stay warm is a high priority. Around this time of year, we commonly get questions about how all the primates stay warm. Thankfully there are a few...