Twycross Zoo

Animal Park · Atherstone, United Kingdom

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Six bonobos sit along two felled logs fitted with metal puzzle boxes at Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary, several of them holding thin sticks used to reach food inside the puzzles.

Africa & Middle East

Bonobos Are Being Watched to See Who Copies Whom

At Lola ya Bonobo, the world’s only bonobo sanctuary, a team of researchers ...

A sedated mandrill lies on a padded veterinary table with an anesthetic tube at his muzzle and a towel under his head, his red and blue ridged face toward the camera. An imaging console screen stands in the foreground showing the X-ray software and the study identifiers.

Africa & Middle East

Mefou’s Vets Can Finally See Inside Their Own Patients

Until last week, a gorilla at the Mefou sanctuary outside Yaounde who needed ...

Five members of a veterinary team stand on a forest track in front of a black painted sign reading la clinique veterinaire, with dense green rainforest behind them.

Africa & Middle East

Cameroon’s Apes Wait Days for a Blood Test

When a gorilla at the Mefou sanctuary outside Yaounde falls ill, Ape Action ...

Sanctuary staff working on a primate enclosure

Africa & Middle East

A 2,000 Pound Appeal, and Three European Zoos

Ape Action Africa asked for 2,000 pounds to rebuild a guenon enclosure at ...

A bonobo sitting and looking toward the camera

Africa & Middle East

Gate Money, Going to Kinshasa

The Columbus Zoo has given more than 500,000 dollars to the world’s only ...

An adult cotton-top tamarin with a shock of white head fur sits on a branch with two small infants clinging to its back.

Conservation Projects

Cotton-Top Tamarin Twins Born at Twycross Zoo

Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire, England, has announced the birth of twin cotton-top tamarins, ...