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A few things you should know....
This blog documents my research in the Congo where I work with chimpanzees and bonobos. There are lots of pictures of cute babies in this blog but its important to me that you know that APES DO NOT MAKE GOOD PETS. All of the apes at the sanctuaries where I work are orphans of the bushmeat trade. Their mothers were shot in the wild and the babies were confiscated, often from unbelievably awful conditions, as they were being sold into the pet trade or other sad fates. Think twice when you see a chimp on TV or in the circus...its often the last stop in a sad life for that animal. At the sanctuaries orphaned animals are given the opportunity to grow up with other apes in vast expanses of the tropical forest they have evolved to inhabit.
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