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Stichting AAP is a rescue center which offers home to confiticated and unwanted monkeys and apes.
Soon they will recieve a small group of Javan monkeys which will arrive in the harbour of Rotterdam. The monkeys entered by themselfs a carrier-ship prop. in Malaysia and roomed free on the ship. Because this was not appriciated, the monkeys were catched and placed together in a small cage. As soon as the ship will arrive in Rotterdam, the animals will be brought to Stichting AAP and then a solution will be soughtfor the 5 animals ( placed in a zoo or brought back to the wild ).
 
Lovely video on the MONA Facebook page of Linda, who was rescued after spending 30 yrs alone, meeting other chimps. Have not been able to link to video possibly because of brain being mush.



Linda's rescue

After an unnerving rescue mission, chimpanzee Linda has arrived from the Spanish Lanzarote to AAP in Almere! She was taken from her mother as a baby and sold to a couple in Lanzarote. They dressed her in tiny clothes and used her as a photo model. As she got too big and strong for this, she was locked up. For thirty years she was all alone in a concrete little shed. Only when her owner came to feed her, Linda had some contact with the outside world. The rest of the time, being alone, she could only play with a piece of rope, the only enrichment in her enclosure. There was nobody to groom or to play with, something that is essential for social and intelligent animals such as chimpanzees.

Linda meets David Linda meets David David van Gennep, managing director of AAP, says that Linda’s case is not an isolated one: “Young chimpanzees and other primates are often abused for amusement, circus acts and tourism. As they grow older and stronger they change from cute into unmanageable and then misery really starts. Therefore AAP works on proper education and legislation, in order to prevent other animals ending up with the same fate that Linda did.” Last year Linda tried to escape. She broke through the ceiling of her little shed and climbed towards her freedom. The local vet managed to anesthetize her after her brief adventure and she was taken back to a new, stronger shed.

Eventually the owners contacted Mona, a Spanish rescue centre, themselves. They wanted to sell their house on short notice and therefore they needed to get rid of Linda. They threatened to dump her if the intake was not arranged quickly. However, Linda is infected with hepatitis B, therefore Mona could not take her in. AAP is one of the few rescue centres in Europe that has the right facilities to take in infected animals and therefore did everything in its power to get Linda to Almere. More chimpanzees with hepatitis B live here, like Fiffy and Regina, and we expect that Linda will fit their group well. Due to her long captivity she probably has a long way to go when it comes to social skills. But chimpanzees are never too old to learn! Linda will return to a social life under close supervision, and will enjoy a beautiful retirement after thirty years.
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If this poor chimp can integrate with others after thirty years of not seeing another one, I'd be surprised if the single female from Banham Zoo doesn't integrate well with the ones at Blair Drummond. After all, she's only been alone for just a few years since her male companion died.
 
Pertinax said:
If this poor chimp can integrate with others after thirty years of not seeing another one, I'd be surprised if the single female from Banham Zoo doesn't integrate well with the ones at Blair Drummond. After all, she's only been alone for just a few years since her male companion died.
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Jill from Africa Alive? There's one called Clyde at the Centre for Great Apes who has managed to start interacting with other chimps after more 40 yrs alone. This is why I love chimps :)

Clyde, a 47-year-old chimpanzee was captured in Africa as an infant and sold as a pet. He was kept for more than 40 years alone in a small garage cage, never seeing another chimpanzee. Rescued by the Center just two years ago, Clyde was skeletal, atrophied, could barely walk, and had bedsores covering his body. But today, this elder chimpanzee is strolling through the chutes in the sunshine and learning how to interact and socialize with other chimpanzees.
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OrangePerson said:
Jill from Africa Alive? There's one called Clyde at the Centre for Great Apes who has managed to start interacting with other chimps after more 40 yrs alone. This is why I love chimps :)
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Yes, I meant AA, not Banham. Chimps are quick learners and good mimics which doubtless helps them learn socialisation techniques too..
 
Pertinax said:
Yes, I meant AA, not Banham. Chimps are quick learners and good mimics which doubtless helps them learn socialisation techniques too..
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Sure are.

AA having just the one chimp really begs the question! Either build up a proper chimp group - as it is Africa Alive - and provide for appropriate housing or sent it on to the Blair Drummond facility - which in themselves are doing a great job up in Scotland reviving this park -.

Perhaps, AA could work with Twycross?

Ideally, I would hope for a social group of true-origin subspecific chimps at AA and a link to one of the field projects with them in Gabon, Cameroon, Sierra Leone or Cote d'Ivoire.
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
AA having just the one chimp really begs the question! Either build up a proper chimp group - as it is Africa Alive - and provide for appropriate housing or sent it on to the Blair Drummond facility - which in themselves are doing a great job up in Scotland reviving this park
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Pertinax's comment was about Jill the remaining chimp who has gone from Africa Alive to Blair Drummond.
 
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They hace recieved three male talapon monkeys from Spain, they where used as photoprops in Benidorm.
 
In 1982 12 Chimps were confistiated at Vienna Airport but only 3 of them survaived. One of them - Henry - was send to Heidelberg Zoo where he died 2015.
The 2 other Chimps - Rosi and Hiasl - were housed at the Vienna Animal-protection society. Now these 2 animals were send to Stichting AAP and can hopefully be intergrated in one of the groups there.
 
vogelcommando said:
Stichting AAP is a rescue center which offers home to confiticated and unwanted monkeys and apes.
Soon they will recieve a small group of Javan monkeys which will arrive in the harbour of Rotterdam. The monkeys entered by themselfs a carrier-ship prop. in Malaysia and roomed free on the ship. Because this was not appriciated, the monkeys were catched and placed together in a small cage. As soon as the ship will arrive in Rotterdam, the animals will be brought to Stichting AAP and then a solution will be soughtfor the 5 animals ( placed in a zoo or brought back to the wild ).
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What happened with these monkeys, these are Javan lutungs or Javan surili?
 
vogelcommando said:
Didn't find any other information about what happened and Javan monkey is another name for the Crab-eating macaque.
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I believe these were the monkeys that caused some controversy because the monkeys were appointed by the ministery of Economic Affairs that was technically owner of the animals to the BPRC (Biomedical Primate Research Centre) and not to Stichting Aap which took care of the animals when they first arrived in the Rotterdam port. A resolution of the Party for Animals (PvdD) in parliament eventually prevented the monkeys from going to the BPRC and appointed them to Stichting Aap where they live now.
 
Menorca zoo in the Balearics have a group of crab eating macaques, that have been sent there by Aap. I belive they too have Hep B anad are displayed behind glass.
 
I think I road something about Crab-eating macaques send to Dierenrijk - Nuenen by AAP. Saw them there last weekend, they share there enclosure with Asian elephants and Axis deer. The Crab-eating macaques ( if I remember right 18 animals ) are an all-female group.
 
Recently 64-year old male Common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Freddy was euthanised, he suffered from both age related illnesses and injuries from his years in a circus. He arrived at Stichting Aap in 2007 after spending most of his life in a German circus.

Source:
Instagram of Stichting Aap (05/06/2022) Login • Instagram
 
Recently 15-year old female Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) Ayame passed away. Caretakers saw her fall from a platform, She was no longer moving or breathing and had no heartbeat. She was resuscitated, but to without succes. Ayame was brought to AAP in 2015 with 13 other Japanese macaques. The animals came from a family park in France that was closed by the authorities.

Source:
Instagram of Stichting AAP (29/11/2023)
 
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