19 May 2010
Tony the Chacma Baboon is coming home to Franklin Zoo after living at Auckland Zoo since Feb 2007. We moved Tony to Auckland Zoo so he could be in a social situation with the then 3 old Chacma baboons, who have now all passed away. Tony has since been living in parallel with Hamadryas Baboons.
The Franklin Zoo Charitable trust will be fundraising to build Tony a new home so that going into the future he will have lots of enrichment and be able to watch the goings on at the Sanctuary. We are looking into options to find a social situation for him overseas, or perhaps a similar situation as at Auckland where he could live close to other baboons, but Hamadryas males.
Tony is expected at Franklin in July this year.
