Thursday, July 22, 2010

The Chimpanzees.
















Chimpanzees are great apes that are closely related to humans. These intelligent primates live in a variety of environments in western and central Africa. Because of rapid deforestation of their habitat, chimpanzees are endangered species. Deep in the heart of South Africa, the Jane Goodall Institute's Chimp Eden Sanctuary is a place of renewal and rebirth for more than 2 dozen chimpanzees, most of which suffered horrible lives in human captivity. Susi, a chimpanzee living in a resort where she was hit by stones, tied to trees, given alcohol, teased , tortured and mostly importantly, she was at the guests display 24\7. She had been given alcohol, bottles of beer so that she was dazed and would greet the tourists and not bite them, she was never an aggressive chimpanzee but after being teased and hit she would tend to bit people at times. So, to prevent this they gave her alcohol and she would drink this,when the vets finally found that she was being treated cruelly they rushed to the resort she was living at, knowing that they were going to have to fight to take her back to Chimp Eden. She was extremely friendly towards the vets and she knew they didn't have intentions of teasing or hurting her.. when they took her blood samples they found that with the alcohol she had been drinking she had got a lethal infection.The government allowed the vets to take her. She was immediately taken to Chimp Eden with a few more Chimpanzees knowing she would have a better life there.
Chimpanzees that never climbed trees are now swinging from branch to branch. Chimpanzees that survived on table scraps and garbage are not given heavy meals three times a day. Chimpanzees who spent years alone and isolated in cramped cages, now thrive in solid and stable family groups. The goal of Chimp Eden is too move the strongest and most skilled Chimpanzees, back to the rainforest where they really belong. Some Chimpanzees are so humanized that they resist their own natural instincts while others constantly test the boundaries of the sanctuary.
This is their new life, a better one.
Thankyou, Chimp Eden. :)

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