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Caring
for Chimpanzees
The chimpanzees living in accredited
zoos across North America are our primary charges. The SSP
helps individual zoos keep informed with the latest techniques and
management strategies for housing chimpanzees to optimize their
wellbeing. Every two years, the Chimpanzee holds its
Chimpanzee Care and Wellbeing
workshop to help animal care professionals keep up with the
latest trends in training, enrichment and animal management.
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Welfare
Standards |
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The Standardized
Guidelines project is a collaborative effort between the
TAGs, SSPs, AZA Animal Welfare Committee, and individual AZA
members to create guidelines for animal care for all
vertebrates in AZA collections. These guidelines will
combine up-to-date scientific information and years of
animal care expertise in an easy-to-use template that
identifies the biological and physical needs of the animals.
The Standardized Guidelines will also contain current TAG
recommendations.
The Chimpanzee
SSP is hard at work on the standardized guidelines for
chimpanzees. Soon they will be reviewed by internal
and external sources and available here on the website.
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Exhibit
Design |
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design of artificial environments for captive chimpanzees is
a difficult process but one which is tremendously important
to advance the care of the species. As we learn more
about the optimal housing of apes, exhibit designs evolve,
and hopefully improve over time. Stay tuned here for
links to site about the latest chimpanzee exhibits around
the SSP...
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