Welcome to Primate's World

Primate Conservation:
2005 Primate Freedom Tour
The Bonobo Switchboard
Jane Goodall Institute Website - Make a Difference
Jane Goodall - Savior of Orphaned Chimpanzees
Jane Goodall Center For Excellence in Environmental Studies
Jane Goodall: Chum of Chimps 12/97
Primarily Primates Sanctuary - Some 350 primates rescued
Center For Captive Chimpanzee Care - Jane Goodall
Fauna Foundation - Sanctuary for Research Primates
PrimFocus - Discussion List About Protecting Primates
Primate Peril - Humans Kill off Cousins 8/97
Chimps Find Haven From Labs 2/98
Coulston Corners Chimp Exploitation USNEWS 8/95
Chimpanzee Success Stories
Meet Your Relatives

Educational & Job Resources:
Educational Resources & Training Opportunities in Primatology
Primatological Careers
Zoological Park Careers & Adventure Camps
Primate Info Net - Conservation, news, primate jobs & education
Primate jobs, internships and advice
Zoo Careers

Language Skills:
Chimpanzee and Great Ape Language Resources on the Internet
CWU - Chimpanzee & Human Communications Institute
The Origins of Baby Babble
Gorilla Foundation - Teaching Sign Language to Koko & Michael
Can Chimps Talk? - NOVA Transcript
Do Chimps Have Language Skills? - A Look at Both Sides
Do Apes Use Language? - A uniquely human gift?
How do infants learn language? - The sounds of language

Brains, Thinking, Behavior & Evolution:
Bonobo Sex and Society - 03/95 Scientific American
Bonobos May be More Like Humans - Discovery 5/98
Emergence of Intelligence - 10/94 Scientific American
Think Tank - Unique Exhibit Concerned with Animal Thinking.
Researchers Rethink Origin of Human Mind
Brains Quite Similar - Chimps Like Us 1/98
Primate Use of Tools
The Bonobo Page

Primate Feelings & Emotions:
Do apes have feelings, emotions?- 5/98

Zoos, Pictures & Research:
Great Ape Pictures
Primate Image Resources
The Simian Census - Primates Used for Invasive Biomedical Research
California Regional Primate Research Center
Wisconson Regional Primate Research Center
Information Resources in Primatology
Busch Gardens’ Gorillas
Net Vet - Primates
Gorilla Live Web Cam - National Zoo in Washington, D.C.

Primate Resources:
PrimFocus - Discussion List About Protecting Primates
World Directory of Primatologists - Contact Info

" Their brain is more like ours than any other living creature’s. We share social behaviors, long childhoods, the importance of learning, bonds between family members, and there are different chimpanzee cultures around Africa. There is cooperation, warfare and brutality, but also love, compassion and altruism. They have rational thought, and they express emotions like happiness, sadness, fear and mental as well as physical suffering. " - Jane Goodall

First 5 of 30 chimps arrive at Primarily Primates Sanctuary December 10th, 1998

Oldest Hominid Ever Is Discovered December 9th, 1998. The 4 foot tall hominid (ape-man, a missing link in man’s evolution from ape to human.) was discovered at Sterkfontein, north of Johannesburg. Australopithecus, had both human and ape-like features. This is probably the most momentous palaeo-anthropological find ever made in Africa.

Ape-Man, Australopithecus, Walking with Cavemen - watch the video link.

Discovering Chimps - presented by the Jane Goodall Institute’s Center For Primate Studies.

The Air Force announced Thursday, August 6, 1998 that the chimpanzee troop originally organized to help put America into space was being divided between the Coulston Foundation of Alamogordo, N.M., and Primarily Primates , a large animal sanctuary in San Antonio. Coulston will receive 111 of the 141 chimps, and Primarily Primates will receive the other 30.

The Center For Captive Chimpanzee Care - Currently rescuing 266 chimpanzees from the Coulston Lab and retire them to a specially created sanctuary.

Living Links Instead of hunting for missing links, why not focus on the living links between humans and their primate relatives? These links include the four extant great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans.

"On the basis of all the evidence, the closest relative of the human proves to be the chimp. The closest relative of the chimp is the human. Not orangs, but people. Us. Chimps and humans are nearer kin than are chimps and gorillas or any other kinds of ape not of the same species."

A reminder that we are, after all, not so very different from the chimpanzees still roaming the jungles.

" The Primate Bookshelf features some of the most interesting and educational books that I’ve read from. I have provided many custom links to online bookstores.

I really do think a greater effort needs to be made to educate the public about the importance of the enduring close kinship between primates and human primates. They should to know, for example, that primates have been taught language in captivity, that primates have thoughts and emotions just like humans (the kinship is more than genetic).

If more people knew that primates are dying-out in the wild or that primates are being caged inhumanly for entertainment and science, maybe they would turn their good intentions into action.

This web page is my attempt to help others learn about primates and hopefully to help the primates who can’t speak for themselves."
- bonobos