Gibbons in Latin American Zoos

I don't know if Boris and Tobias are housed together, but I don't think so.

 

In 2012, there were four siamang gibbons being kept in the GAP sanctuary (the one in Sorocaba), one of them, a female named Lia was born there. The other three (two females, named Rebeca and Ju, and a single male, named Edmundo, but known as Juca) were brought to the sanctuary after a privately-owned park in the state of Rio de Janeiro (Bwana Park) closed its doors in 2001. I think they might still be alive.

 

Didn't know Pedro owned siamangs at his private zoo.

 

At least a single lar gibbon individual has been kept at the Sorocaba zoo. I found two videos from the 1970's of the zoo which showed lots of interesting animals, such as vervet monkeys, Asian black bears and a lar gibbon.


Those are the links for the videos.

 

Great to see this old footage @Enzo !

I can't quite work out what island the gibbon is seen on but it looks to me somewhat like the island currently used for the buffy headed capuchin and the red howler monkeys.

I'm sure the baby chimpanzee that is seen in the videos jumping and swinging around is the individual "Black" who is now at the GAP "sanctuary" that is also in Sorocaba.

The chimpanzee group that arrived at the Sorocaba zoo during the 1970's were rescued from a circus and Black is the last living member of this group.

 

I found a video from 2017, which shows a bit of the GAP "sanctuary". If you go to the minute 13:14, you'll get to see three of the siamangs.

 

The Buín zoo has at least two gibbons. They live in the same exhibit as the orangutan.

 

It seems that he does... And he seems to be thirsty for more animals everyday...

 

Nice videos. It seems that the zoo has changed a lot... Great to see the exhibits have improved so much in most cases...