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HOW YOU CAN HELP There are many ways in which you can T e help us to rescue and rehabilitate more t Ape”-eal primates. All donations go into a 100% Grea fund - NO ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS “ SUMMER! ARE REMOVED. Monkey World is not a Charity No. 1126939 To help us reduce our shopping bill at this registered charity, but we have established difficult time, we’d really appreciate donations of the Jim Cronin Memorial Fund for fresh fruit, vegetables, pulses and supplements Primate Conservation and Welfare (UK Your donations have been a big help during this through supermarket deliveries. Please follow Registered Charity, No.1126939) and the difficult time, thank you! the link www.monkeyworld.org/support-us/ Endangered Asian Species Trust (UK Registered Charity No.1115350) which going care – every penny. Let them know that donations-and-appeals/. These are hard times as an adoptive parent, they will receive a year’s for us all, and we appreciate your support. supports endangered primate rescue and A PE R ESCUE C HRONICLE rehabilitation in Asia. pass to the park, a photo of the monkey or ape, a certificate, and the Ape Rescue Chronicle Issue: 75 SPRING/SUMMER 2020 HigH Priority Without your help, our rescue and three times per year. Establish a legacy for items! rehabilitation work would not be possible. If the long-term welfare of the primates and be Vegetables Seeds you are on holiday and see a monkey or ape remembered in the park. Help us to rescue more Pepper Celery & Nuts being used, abused, or neglected, please monkeys and apes in need. Fennel Spinach /Kale Pumpkin Seeds let us know. Take down all the details and Sweetcorn Broccoli Sunflower Seeds Avocado Runner Beans Mixed Nuts in Shells try to get a photo – we follow up on as many Cucumber Peas Unsalted Cashews reports as possible. Dried & Walnuts Food Tinned Pulses Hazelnuts For Fun In addition to the list on the left, there are many Amazon Wish List Pecans Peanut Butter other items we need to care for our rescued Chickpeas If you are further afield, but would still like Almonds No-Added Sugar primates. Please see our NEW UPDATED Butterbeans to help, we update our Amazon wishlist Kidney beans Squash Amazon Wish List that has all kinds of regularly with all the items needed at Honey different goods that the monkeys and apes Fruit the park. These range from insects and need. And remember our Bedding Appeal seeds for our small monkeys, to nuts Mango Papaya for any unused bedding, blankets, or towels. and kongs for the apes. Pineapple Cherries Carbohydrates The On-line Shop has loads of new items for Items purchased from our wishlist are Kiwifruit Pomegranates Wheatgerm presents and stocking stuffers (http://www. delivered directly to the park, so please Lemons Blueberries Plain Oats remember to include your contact Grapes Blackberries monkeyworld.org/Monkey-World-Online-Gift- Baby Rice details in the Gift Note section, so that Oranges Raspberries Shop) & Gift Catalogue is full of monkey Figs memorabilia and ape accessories for anyone we can let you know your goodies have who loves primates as much as we do?! arrived safely. Supplements Thank you! Glucosamine & Chondroitin Toys As a supporter, part of the Monkey World (400mg/100mg) Dog Rope Pulls family, and adoptive parent, please tell Turmeric & Curcumin colleagues, friends, and family about the Capsules (500mg) Kongs (all sizes) Milk Thistle Feeding Balls Primate Adoption Scheme. 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Longthorns Farm, Longthorns, Wareham, Dorset BH20 6HH Middlemarsh nr Sherborne DT9 5QN Tel: 01929 401539 www.longthornsfarm.co.uk www.whitehorsefarm.co.uk 20 Kalu and Naree enjoy ice KALUKALU MAKESMAKES ITIT TOTO MONKEYMONKEY WORLDWORLD lollies on a hot day – – BETTERBETTER LATELATE THANTHAN NEVERNEVER By Hannah Barlow & Alison Cronin to Rodders’ boisterous behaviour even Over the summer of 2019 we were contacted and asked if we could when he is inviting her to play. For now, give a home to a 35+ year old chimpanzee that had been kept as a she seems to prefer to just be in the pet all of her life. company of others, without necessarily having to interact with them. Both Rodders and Ash were scared of Kalu to begin with, but since meeting her, both have attempted to have more friendly interactions by holding their hands out to her or attempting to groom her. Kalu’s Alison Cronin & Jeremy Keeling from Monkey World More than 30 years of treats left Kalu with rotten aloof attitude is frustrating as they cannot flew to South Africa to oversee Kalu’s transport teeth and diabetes understand why she is not reacting like a ‘normal’ chimpanzee to their friendly like her to be, so her diet is critical – she needs advances. She has however, only been foods like chicken and avocado that are high in with us for five months, so considering protein and fats to help her gain weight, while that she has not been with other chimps avoiding foods that are high in sugars and/or since she was stolen from the wild refined carbohydrates. over 35 years ago, she is doing pretty well! We are spending lots of time As well as providing a carefully balanced diet, using cooperative feeding so Kalu sits the Primate Care Staff (PCS) have worked alongside either Rodders or Ash and hard on Kalu’s training. Despite no prior we will start letting her spend the night experience of positive reinforcement training, with Bryan and Naree so that she is Kalu has proved to be a smart cookie! She with other chimpanzees around the Kalu was transported in the cargohold quickly learned how to present her fingers and Patricia Cavendish-O’Neil & Kalu of a passenger flight clock. Hopefully, given time, patience toes to allow PCS to check her blood glucose and gentle encouragement, Kalu will levels, not just once but twice a day, and now Kalu is the oldest chimpanzee that we transport box. Nothing went to plan but we learn how to ‘speak chimpanzee’, start she is even taking insulin injections as we find have ever rescued and we were concerned did get Kalu into her transport box following a to join in with the the right balance of medications for her. how she would make the long journey quick health check and were surprised to find others, and and if she would adapt to a new life with that the opinionated, aggressive lady that we Kalu has now met everyone in Bryan’s group. enjoy social other chimpanzees. It took months to had first met in the enclosure was now calm, She adores Bryan, has a reasonably good interactions complete the paperwork to transport an reasonable, and even friendly. relationship with Naree, and is happy to with her new endangered species internationally, but at family. The good news was see Lulu from time to time. She joins in with the start of February, Alison, Jeremy, and that Kalu took the long everyone when they pant hoot, but we are vet John Lewis headed off to Cape Town Entrance to Broadlands Farm journey in her stride seeing the psychological and social impact on what was going to be a very dramatic but sadly her health of so many years without contact of other Her name was Kalu. She was born in the wild rescue (be sure to tune in to Series 13 of check showed that chimps. Sadly, Kalu seems to know very little in the former Zaire (Democratic Republic of Monkey Life!). We had a couple of days to she had serious Type 2 about chimp social etiquette; she is happy Congo) and as a baby was found tied up get to know Kalu, learn how she was kept, Six rotten teeth diabetes and a mouthful of to be groomed, but is rarely seen grooming outside of an embassy when the country and most importantly work out a plan as rotten teeth. Clearly years of others, she is not very playful, and she objects was collapsing into civil war. Kalu was taken to how we were going to get her into her to South Africa where she became a pet processed food and treats had taken its toll. and lived on a racehorse stud farm with a After a couple of weeks settling into life in variety of animals. Kalu’s story is the same Bryan’s house, we had John back in to remove as so many of our rescued chimpanzees – six rotten teeth. Not only has Kalu had to deal as soon as she reached adolescence, she with a change in lifestyle, going from living became too big to control, unpredictable, alone to being part of a chimpanzee family, and potentially dangerous to anyone other but it was critical she got used to a healthy, than her owner. An enclosure and shelter balanced diet to stablise her dangerously high were built for Kalu where she has lived for blood sugar.