![]() ![]() ![]() ( Read how animal mothers remind us a lot of our own.)ĭue to habitat destruction, hunting, and disease, the great ape’s populations have fallen by at least 70 percent, from about a million in 1900 to between 172,000 and 300,000 today. In recent years, new research has brought chimpanzee motherhood into clearer focus, while also providing valuable information about this endangered species. Though chimp communities-which range from Uganda’s tropical rainforests to Tanzania’s savanna woodlands-are diverse, with their own quirks and behaviors, they all share the same foundation: Powerful bonds between moms and young. Sound familiar? Like human moms, chimpanzees pour immense resources into raising their offspring into healthy adults, which can live up to 40 years in the wild. An intense, time-consuming relationship that lasts more than a decade. Please contact us for subscription options.Round-the-clock infant care for a year. It lies on the foot of the snowcapped Mount Kenya in the Ol Pejeta conservancy, a 90,000 acres private wildlife conservancy.Īnadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary is home to more than 50 orphaned and abused chimpanzees around the age of 15 from central and West Africa. Goodall said chimpanzees have a photographic memory and that they can remember people who previously tortured them. Other chimpanzees were rescued while on transit to Asia where they would serve as pets. Most of the chimpanzees at the sanctuary are saved from previous owners who had chained them up and locked them in cages. This is the main reason why rescued chimpanzees are either missing an arm or a foot or have scars all over their bodies, Goodall said. "In the past, the snares were made of vines which could easily break, but nowadays they are made from wires which cut into their flesh,” she said. ![]() Commercially hunted for food, chimpanzees are usually caught in snares, which they can’t free themselves from, Goodall said. The report said illegal wildlife trade makes up a billion-dollar business. "It is important for the young people to learn how similar we are with these young apes," Goodall said.Īccording to a report by UNESCO in 2013, as many as 22, 218 wild great apes were lost between 20 because of illegal trade. She said her organization aims to spread the message to the youth across the world that chimpanzees cannot be used as pets and educate the next generation to look after nature "better than the current generation". "We have to educate people in Asia and the Middle East about the fact that it is so wrong to take these chimpanzees as pets, they are not little play things," Goodall told Anadolu Agency on Thursday when she re-opened the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Kenya after it had been closed for renovation. Goodall, who has conducted groundbreaking studies on primate behavior for 55 years, said there was a rise in capturing infant chimpanzees with the purpose of exporting them to countries in Asia and the Middle East. Renowned British primatologist, Jane Goodall, has warned that there is a surge in the illegal trade of infant chimpanzees in Central and West Africa.
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