Chimpanzee Conservation Centre

Category: Uncategorized | Date: Oct 28 2009 | By: chris colin

Zoe safelly arrived at midnight on Monday night at the sanctuary! Almost 17hrs of travel, a long trip but she stayed calm all the way!

She spent the night in her cage of transport with Matt and Melanie by her side.

In the morning, they put Zoe in Coco’s cage as it is divided in 2 parts. As I explained before, Coco’s cage is the only cage that can hold an adult chimp in quarantine at the sanctuary. The cage is isolated from the other facilities. Zoe will probably stay with him after her quarantine period as it is probably too late for her to gain enough experience to be rehabilitated with the others. We will see anyway how she evolves.

First, Zoe was  scared of Coco but after one hour she accepted to have physical contact with him through the bars. He was passing his arms through the bars and lifting her up and tickling her. They played like crazy, there both laughed a lot… Matt said that he had never heard Coco laugh so hard before!

The next step will be to introduce them together and to let them go out in their enclosure. We all hope that they will remain in their enclosure without escaping (Coco is an escape artist if you remember) and enjoy their new life together!

Take care