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One of the two individuals of chimpanzees that the zoo houses. This is the female, 'Dorotéia'; she lives with her stepfather, 'Serafim'.

Pan troglodytes. Part of the indoor exhibit, showing all six chimps shortly after having been fed.

So I went to the zoo the other day. And a keeper was telling people that they have female peacocks running around. And it made me want to scream that they aren't peacocks that they are peahens. And the bird is called a peafowl. Like it's spreading misinformation about the bird. And another...

Oh look, SJ13 talking about something ape related! What a shocker! As the title suggests, anyone else fancy ranking their top five enclosures? We'll go by Twycross rules and say best orangutan, best gorilla, best chimpanzee and best bonobo enclosures. Ranking indoors and outdoors separately...

Pan troglodytes.

Today is a very special day everyone. On this day, 57 years ago, the approximately eight-year old bonobo female Margrit arrived in Frankfurt Zoo as a donation from a sailor who had kept her as a pet for some years. She promptly joined the established group at Frankfurt which at the time...

So a couple of years back I learnt of the TNO, and their experiments with chimpanzees. I further discovered that, in the early 2000s I believe, they formally stopped keeping the chimps and decided to send them to zoos and rescue centres to live out the rest of their lives. This got me...

Ok so Pertinax challenged me...so I'll do the zoos I do know! Pretty much all in the UK/Netherlands, so everyone help me out! I'll start with the basics; the zoos that Zootierliste says have western chimps. There are 58 that keep them (counting a zoo in Israel and a zoo in Kazakhstan). Of...

Naked Chimpanzees These are the Chimpanzees ( chimps) from the Twycross zoo at Atherstone, England. The two brothers are suffering from alopecia, which is the general medical term for hair loss. In the background you can hear some one asking the keeper about it and the keeper explaining...

So following the awesome response time of my chimpanzees in the UK thread, I thought I'd start this thread with the hope of any updates being added here? At the current time of writing there are 10 zoos in Europe that house bonobos, 118 as of end February 2016. The groups are as follows...

Yancheng Safari Park in Changzhou, China. The zoo said it was a young chimpanzee, but some people thought it looks like a bonobo.

Hello, I am writing in hopes to be able to ask a few questions about the total number of Barbary macaques in captivity in zoos and primate facility/centres that members know of. I am a graduate student who completed a recent population count of the remaining wild populations in Algeria...

Hey everyone! I've recently become interested in the groups of apes at Frankfurt, was wondering if anyone could help update me on their current statuses (as in who's who, pregnancies, names genders etc)? Currently I'm certain I'm up to date with the bonobo group; Kamiti (pregnant), Omanga...

Hello everyone, I've already been hearing quite a bit about the apes of Apenheul. I go there as often as I can. However, for a project I have been asked to undertake, I would like to know the full history of the bonobo troop in Apenheul (so from 1996 onwards)! This includes arrivals, deaths...

I've seen several websites discussing how cetaceans (especially orcas) and elephants don't thrive in captivity, often with a quite emotional text and emotional (as well as sometimes slightly photoshopped) images of animals looking sad. This huge focus on how saddening and cruel it is to keep...

A group of 5 bonobo has arrived at La vallee des singe, in France, the group came from Stuttgart. These are the only bonobos in France and are currently off show until a new one acre, wooded enclosure with a 900m square house has been completed for them. The group includes a breeding female born...

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. The campaign was launched at the EAZA conference in Verona recently and member zoos have started to sign up over the last couple of weeks. You can find...

Take a look: BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'New' giant ape found in DR Congo

May 2006.

Photo taken March 2005.