Pictures and stories about this baby chimpanzee say that a Russian zookeeper brought the ape home from the zoo 2 years ago. Many in the U.S. great...
Friends, I just created a petition: CareerBuilder, stop using chimpanzees in Superbowl ads, because I care deeply about the welfare of...
It's not a zoo designation, but I decided to declare 2012 as the Year of the Chimpanzee in the United States. If we are ever going to get U.S....
Many zoos had chimp shows that helped us smile. Don't you think it's time we paid chimps back for those smiles? My YouTube video, Chimpanzee...
Over a dozen U.S. zoo are having events to honor MOM (Missing Orangutan Mothers) on Sunday, May 8. I've explained the story behind MOM, with a...
Do we need a new ZooChat forum dedicated to zoo history? Not to memorabilia, which are the products, but a place where we can chat about the lives...
If your local zoo has orangutans, please check to see whether they are planning to have educational activities on May 8, as part of the Missing...
Did zoos keep information on the cause of death of orangutans who died in the 1960s? I'm particularly interested in Sadie, who was purchased by...
Why did zoos feel compelled to dress up their primates, as recently as the 1980s? Or for that matter, why do marketers now know that their ads...
A truly sad sight is a pet- or actor-chimpanzee who has to wear clothes! I've blogged about one little pet chimp, owned by my aunt back in the...
Haloko, National Zoo's oldest western lowland gorilla, passed today. This sweet lady was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in December....
I'm trying to get a sense of how many zoos had chimp shows from the 1940s to around 1975 or so. My dad trained chimps for the Detroit Zoo, and I'm...
Does anyone have any memories of the chimp shows about 50 years ago? My dad was a chimp trainer at the Detroit Zoo in the 1940s and 50s....
My dad was a chimp trainer at the Detroit Zoo in the 1940s and 50s. Author Shawn Thompson wrote about our family and the chimps in his blog,...
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