I don’t know if this has been mentioned before but what’s your opinion on zookeepers and/or owners of dangerous animals like big cats, apes etc...
Hello, I was just at the Toledo Zoo and I noticed one of the female northern white-cheeked gibbons was missing the fur on her scalp, which I’m not...
Many of you know me for my population lists as I've created quite a few of those but this time around I decided to tackle a slightly different and...
Which zoos and which species have crossings over visitor paths, so that animals, e.g. monkeys, orangutans or binturongs walk over visitors heads?...
Photo of a sumantran orangutan I took back in 2018 when I visited zoo atlanta in the summer time.
In pretty much every Zoo I visited, even modern and big exhibits, great apes have no acces to trees, they are either weired, to stop the apes to...
Following the success of Big Cats, the BBC Natural History Unit is making a follow-up series: Primates. The three episodes will focus on primate...
Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates 2016-2018 was launched on Tuesday. The list is not intended as a scientific ranking of...
Oh look, SJ13 talking about something ape related! What a shocker! As the title suggests, anyone else fancy ranking their top five enclosures?...
Does anyone here have experience working with chimps and/or bonobos? If so, what is the typical diet/menu that you feed them on an average week?...
I've had an idea for a fun little game (well, fun for me).:rolleyes: Imagine we live on Planet Of The Apes, and humans were a bit "thicker" than...
Imagine this situation: A genetics laboratory somewhere in the near future finds a way to bring extinct human ancestors back to life. The...
I was wondering what people on zoochat think is the best gibbon enclosure in the UK, and why? Also what makes a good gibbon enclosure in your...
I greatly enjoyed watching the 2012 Disneynature movie Chimpanzee. From Wikipedia: Chimpanzee is a 2012 nature documentary film about a young...
Every so often, kids hear about famous people buying chimpanzees, and decide they want one, too. The Kardashians were photographed with a pet...
A quick heads-up regarding Chester's upcoming events supporting the EAZA Ape Campaign. Do what you can to support a good cause! Monday 18th to...
I've seen some mentions of the EAZA Ape Campaign elsewhere in the ZooChat forums so I thought it might be useful to post some information here....
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