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IV Iberian Primatological Conference – CIP4

CIP4 On the Interaction of Cognition and Welfare

The 4th Iberian Primatological Conference of both the Asociación Primatológica Española and the Portuguese Primatology Association will be held in Girona (Spain) from October 2-5, 2013 organized by the Mona Foundation in collaboration with the Departament d’Educació i Psicologia from the Universitat de Girona.

News - News  | Friday, 14 June 2013 | Views (20)

Blog: Nursing home for the blind Minou?

Everybody wants to live long and grow old, but nobody wants to be old. For, as we all know, old age is sickness of itself. Understandably, the cuts in health care have been a popular conversation subject lately. The current gouvernment has recently reached an agreement on the future of health care. The ever rising costs for longterm care must be reigned in by taking care of the people at home instead of in a nursing home.

News - News  | Tuesday, 21 May 2013 | Views (159)

Annual report: 2012 in a nutshell

AAP is proud to present our annual report in a nutshell. It shows our most important successes, but also gives more information on the number of animals rescued and outplaced in 2012, our strategy of prevention oriented rescue and our efforts to become a responsible user of this planet. 

News - News  | Tuesday, 14 May 2013 | Views (114)

AAP Summer Course 2013: husbandry of rescued primates

AAP, Rescue Centre for Exotic Animals in the Netherlands, organises once again, after two very successful courses, the Summer Course “Husbandry of rescued primates” in August.

This course covers the processes that are needed to resocialise and rehome traumatised, exotic animals in a rescue centre such as AAP. Different subjects will be addressed varying from policy issues, prevention, veterinary care (capturing, handling, prevention and treatment of diseases) and behavioural care (observations, enrichment, reducing abnormal behaviour and resocialise the animal so it is able to live in a group with conspecifics). These subjects and much more will all be addressed during this unique course from 26th to 30th of August 2013 at AAP, Rescue Centre for Exotic Animals.

News - News  | Friday, 12 April 2013 | Views (1075)

Squirrel 'Valentine' off to AAP on Valentine's Day

On Valentine's Day AAP took in an exotic squirrel (exact species yet unknown). Given the arrival date, he (or she) was named 'Valentine'. Valentine was caught in Rijswijk, by the Dierenambulance (Animal Ambulance) The Hague. The squirrel had been bitten and chased by a dog, before fleeing up a tree to escape. An employee of the Dierenambulance climbed after him and managed to catch him. An initial check by our vet Hester pointed out that Valentine has no visible wounds or fractures. However, Valentine is quite fat and still a little shocked due to his adventure.

News - News  | Friday, 15 February 2013 | Views (280)

Blog: Baboon 'beats' Chimpanzee...(with stick)

In the 1960’s Jane Goodall discovered that man was not the only species that made and used tools. Until then the use of tools was considered a human characteristic and the discovery brought a huge discussion. Should the definition of tool use or mankind be revised or should the chimpanzees be recognized as humans?

News - News  | Monday, 04 February 2013 | Views (791)

Press Release: Chimpanzee stuck on Canary Islands for 22 years

AAP rescues chimpanzee from fate as lonely pet on Gran Canaria

On December 16th 2012, AAP welcomed a new chimpanzee to the rescue centre: 22-year-old Macario. No older than four months, Macario was taken from his mother in a Senegalese Zoo, to be sold to a Spanish family on Gran Canaria. For years, he ate and slept alongside the children of the family, until he matured and did no longer behave as an ‘ape-child’. He was locked in a cage at an abandoned site, without any form of enrichment or distraction. Because of this, he developed severe stereotypic behaviour.

News - News  | Monday, 17 December 2012 | Views (677)

Dutch government prepared to ban the use of wild animals in circuses

In their coalition agreement presented to the public on the 29th of October, the new Dutch government announced a ban on the use of wild animals in circuses. The Dutch animal protection organization Wilde Dieren de Tent Uit (No Wild Animals in Circuses) has worked towards a ban for years and is, together with co-founder the AAP Foundation, very excited about this animal friendly decision by the Dutch government.

News - News  | Wednesday, 31 October 2012 | Views (4703)

Photo impression from our outplacement partner De Zonnegloed in Belgium

Photo album: De Zonnegloed is a Belgium zoo, where we have outplaced various (groups of) animals over time. Recently one of our volunteers visited the zoo and took pictures of all the AAP animals that live at De Zonnegloed now.

News - Films & photographs  | Friday, 19 October 2012 | Views (409)

Blog: Fritz says 'no!'

“I want it mummy, mummy, can I have it, mummy, mummy, mummieeeee?” Mummy is busy twittering or facebooking on her smartphone, looks up distractedly to say no and twitters happily further. The little girl doesn’t give up and starts to cry. “But I really really want the panda”. “Lisa, I said no”. Later I see Lisa with a tearful face walking out of the zoo, triumphantly holding the cuddly toy panda. Mission accomplished!

News - News  | Wednesday, 03 October 2012 | Views (598)