Wales Ape & Monkey Sanctuary Cefn-yr-Erw Primate Sanctuary

Thanks, i'd never realised where the odd name had come from!

 

Oh my goodness, so it was! I've always thought it's a cute name, maybe not.

 

Nor had I!

 

Tubman, what a great name for a chimp.

 

Boiler broken :
BBC News - Chimps feel cold after boiler breaks at Wales Ape and Monkey Sanctuary

 

Good to hear that Jason is well. Is Jacky (ex Southport) still alive and well?

 

Sadly Jacky died a few years ago. Jason lives with Tubman and they seem to get on well which is good for Tubman too.

 

Thanks - shame about Jacky though, but good to hear that Jason is fully integrated with another chimp.

 

Jason is a fabulous boy , I adopt him he's done brilliant settling in with Tubman , it seems he looks upto him even ! They are a happy content pair x

 

A new chimp has arrived from Germany. As stated in the article below he is getting to know Tubman and Jason.

​Charley the German chimp looking for friendship in Swansea Valley

 

Not mentioned previously a number of large dogs from a rescue centre in Poland. One had surgery to tidy up a badly performed amputation of a foreleg.

 

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I believe I'm right in saying that Tubman the chimp was born in 1968. I looked after him when I worked at Mole Hall in the 1980s. At that time he lived with two females, Gloria and Olinda (if my memory of their names serves me right), but didn't get on with either of them. As he had been reared in the house by Mrs Johnstone, owner of the park, he was very humanized, and didn't really think of himself as a chimp. He got on much better with Joey, who has also been mentioned in this thread, who was his companion after the two females had departed. Certainly when I knew him he had an excellent memory. When I went back to the Park as a visitor, quite a long time after I had worked there, Mrs J. had some difficulty remembering me, but it was quite clear from Tubman's reaction as soon as he saw me, that HE remembered me.

 

Do you have plans to visit him again? It would be interesting to know if he still recognised you.

 

Visited yesterday , the car park ( not large ) was just about full . On a positive note all primates look to be in good condition .

( Enjoying Snowleopard's recent reviews of a number of the small American rescue centres , I would love to read his review of this collection )

The very large rescued dogs from Poland are much in evidence and a smart new block of kennels has been built with an outside yard being constructed . There are a number of new half-built primate cages . The gibbons outside enclosure has been rebuilt and enlarged and houses the remaining 2 Southport gibbons ( including the hybrid female ) .

No sign of the black mangabey and spider monkey . An adult pair of patas monkey are in the house now and some dogs in the attached outside open-topped enclosure - which I very much doubt would now keep primates in . Did not see any marmosets / tamarins .

The new chimp ( Charley aged 45 from Germany ) is not yet on show , he is to be introduced to Tubman and Jason . In the large enclosue are Fergus and Twmi ( last 2 Penscynor chimps ) , Ronnie and female Nakima . Male Bili lives on his own next to the big cage .

The female black lemur ( sign tells she was born in Newquay ) lives with a single B & W ruffed lemur , there is a new group of male brown lemurs ( Mayotte ) and a bachelor group of B & W ruffed lemurs .

 

Is that the total of Chimps they currently have?

Not sure about Patas Monkeys being kept near(barking) dogs but presumably they have got used to them...

 

Yes I believe so - 8 chimps including the new one not yet on show .

 

More Chimps Arrive

2 new chimps called Kaspar and Uschi are on there way . They are brother and sister and are aged around 35 and 32.

 

Not sure they've actually arrived yet.

 

Your correct Orangeperson, my mistake. There on there way.