by Primate Rescue Center | Mar 6, 2023
Hazel Resident Rescued: 1998 Hazel is the largest—and as best we can tell the oldest—of the PRC chimpanzees. She was most likely caught in the wild, as this was how captive chimpanzees were typically acquired in the 1960s and early ’70s. Her earliest years are a...
by Primate Rescue Center | Mar 6, 2023
Pozna Resident Rescued: 1996 Pozna, the youngest of the PRC chimps, was born on August 10, 1995, at LEMSIP, a biomedical research laboratory in New York. Separated at birth from her mother, she was raised in a nursery-like setting by human caretakers. This was...
by Primate Rescue Center | Mar 3, 2023
Jax Resident Become My Pal Jax arrived at the PRC in October of 2015 when he was 18 years old. He was rescued from a home in Missouri, then had a short stay at the St. Louis Zoo before he was rescued. Jax is a small fellow with a bushy grey beard. He loves to eat...
