I just received fresh news from Matt, our manager.
for Coco and Zoe : Zoe, after 11 years in a cage in Conakry, had climbed her first tree last week! She loved it so much that she stayed in it for 2 days! Now she starts to feel more confortable and she explores more and more her enclosure. She spends most of her time outside in the trees but she sometimes comes back in the cage to play and present herself to Coco. They are still separated as Zoe will need some time to get adjusted to her new environment, to all the team of keepers, the volunteers, etc. She is really sweet and everybody there loves her!
Fatim: her mass had completly disappeared on her neck. But we are really worried as she developped difficulties to swallow and breath now. The vet, Melanie, thought that it is due to side effects of the long anti-fungal treatment, that might have cause kind of reflux acid and damaged her oesophagus. She seems enable to swallow as she spends a lot of time chewing the food and then she spits it… the team also thinks that she could had a false passage as she also presents difficulties to breath and it is really “noisy”. She is on an antibiotic treatment to try to cure this secondary respiratory infection and on anti-acid to help her… We are all worried for her as she has shown great couarge and determination since the beginnig of her disease more than a year ago. Fatim is also an important member of her group and we all want to do everything we can to help her.
I will post you photos of Zoe, Fatim and other chimps as soon as I receive them!
Take care
Donations made here are
Jan 18th Arnaud C USD 55.00
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Thank you for your wonderful job for these beautiful and vulnerable adorable chimps. Please, go ahead.
quelle joie pour Zoé de se retrouver parmi les siens, d’apres les explications, il semble qu’elle soit tres à l’aise dans ce nouvel environnement….elle va surement etre tres heureuse des qu’elle aura des contacts avec des copines…et si elle est sympa avec les soigneurs et les benevoles….c’est super..elle montre une capacité de réadaptation plutot bien développée, c’est bien pour elle.
Notre pauvre Fatim, elle a decidement toutes les miséres du monde qui lui tombe dessus…toute l’équipe est autour d’elle, nous espérons tous que cela va finir par s’arranger…
Merci à vous tous, ceux qui sont presents et tous les precédants, pour votre grand dévouement aupres de nos cousins les chimps…….
J’aimerai quand même préciser que Zoé n’a pas vécu 11 ans dans une cage et qu’elle ne vient pas de découvrir ce qu’était un arbre!!!
C’est quand même dingue de lire des choses comme ça!