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Chimpanzees and people are clashing in rural Uganda
The main driver of the conflicts, it seems, is habitat loss for chimps throughout areas of western Uganda, forested lands outside of national parks and reserves, which have been converted to agriculture as the population has grown. The native forest that once covered these hillsides is now largely gone, much of it cut during recent decades for timber and firewood, and cleared to plant crops. READ MORE
Some of NIH’s chimpanzees will not retire to a sanctuary as planned
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) will not be retiring all of its chimpanzees to a sanctuary, as it originally pledged to do, agency head Francis Collins announced today. Nearly four dozen chimps at a biomedical primate facility in New Mexico will remain there because they are too old and sick to move, he said, although scientific studies of them have ended. Some federally owned or supported chimpanzees at other biomedical primate facilities may also not be retired to sanctuaries. READ MORE
Most animal cruelty isn’t a federal crime. The House just passed a bill to change that.
Many acts of animal cruelty are closer to becoming federal felonies after the House’s unanimous passage Tuesday of the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act. READ MORE
“Theory of Mind”: A 41-year-old question about ape intelligence may finally be answered
Scientists can’t agree on the intelligence of our primate relatives, but new evidence has just bumped up our ape brothers and sisters a few points. Research published Monday in the academic journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that great apes — chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and gorillas — may have a stronger understanding of their minds and the minds of others than scientists ever suspected. READ MORE
A Day for Apes
We are gearing up for an amazing day of giving just for apes! This year the Primate Rescue Center is participating in Giving Day for Apes on October 15th, 2019. This worldwide giving day specifically for apes, hosted by the Arcus Foundation and the Global...
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Happy Halloween with Palm Oil Free Candy
Before you buy Halloween treats, use this list to find candy without palm oil. By taking a few seconds to look at ingredient labels, you can choose orangutan-friendly Halloween candy. READ MORE
Artificial intelligence used to recognise primate faces in the wild
Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed new artificial intelligence software to recognise and track the faces of individual chimpanzees in the wild. READ MORE
It All Adds Up
We recently launched our newest fundraiser on Facebook in hopes that all of our followers will take an active roll in providing sanctuary for the monkeys and apes at the PRC! It can be difficult to think about giving your hard earned cash to a charity, but we hope...
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