The Chimps


Join our Primate Pal Family

Join our Primate Pal Family

Get to know one of the PRC residents while supporting their daily needs through a symbolic adoption. As a nonprofit sanctuary, our fundraising efforts can never cease! Although we are incredibly grateful that each resident at the PRC now has a Pal, we will always...
Eating Green

Eating Green

The Primate Rescue Center is surrounded by lush green landscape that provides a shaded and secluded setting. Not only does this provide a peaceful sanctuary home for the residents, it offers access to lots of yummy browse for their diet! The bulk of the primates diet...
Fun in the Sun!

Fun in the Sun!

The hot summer days have arrived here at the PRC! With many days exceeding 90°, we are making sure all of the residents are staying cool and enjoying some summer fun. Noelle enjoys snacking on frozen slices of jackfruit.   Jenny runs through the cool mist coming...
Cool as a Cucumber

Cool as a Cucumber

Ike arrived at the PRC in 1996 with a group of 6 other young chimpanzees rescued from a now-closed biomedical research lab in New York (LEMSIP). Ike and his chimpanzee friends were all under the age of 5 years old when they arrived at the PRC. These youngsters were...