Akiba:
Female: Approximate Date of Birth January 2000 Date of arrival:5th July 2001
Akiba had been circulating for a couple months around Belabo when
the manager of Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Sanctuary in collaboration
with MINEF officials confiscated ..........
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Arnaud:
Male: Approximate Date of Birth 1999 Date of arrival: 13th September 2003
Arno arrived with Anthal from South West Province of Cameroon. He
turned out to be a great playmate for Twigs who has become much
more confident since ...........
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Batek:
Male: Approximate Date of Birth October 1999 Date of arrival: 8th March 2002
In June 2001 Bateks mother was killed by a poacher and he himself
was wounded by the bullets. A Reverend sister nurse rescued him
and treated his wounds in the .......... Read
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Benito:
Male: Approximate Date of Birth April 1996 Date of arrival:17th September 1996
Benito and
Emma were rescued by a French couple from poachers in southeast
Cameroon and they were both donated to LWC and arrived aged only
a few months .......... Read
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Emma:
Female: Approximate Date of Birth 1996 Date of arrival: 17th September 1996
Emma and Benito
were rescued by a French couple from poachers in southeast Cameroon
and they were both donated to LWC and arrived aged only a ..........
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Brighter:
Female: Approximate Date of Birth 1994 Date of arrival: 23rd May 2003
Brighter and
Twigs, orphaned in Cameroon, along with many other great apes,
and smuggled into Nigeria as infants, they were sold in the notorious
Sabon Gari animal ...........
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Chella:
Male: Approximate Date of Birth 1994 Date of arrival: 2nd February 1996
Chella
was found by wildlife officials in a bush taxi where he was clinging
to pieces of his dead mother who had been shot by poachers. He
was confiscated and kept ......... Read
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Jumbo:
Female: Approximate Date of Birth 1996 Date of arrival: 17th December 1996
A young boy
brought Jumbo to an Italian nurse working in Bertoua with the
idea of selling her. The nurse refused to buy the animal and after
a few days she .......... Read
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Pitchou:
Female: Approximate Date of Birth 1996 Date of arrival: April 14th 1998
Pitchou was
brought to a Hotel in Kribi to be sold after hunters had killed
her mother. The hotel owner compensated the hunter and kept Pitchou
until the .......... Read
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Twigs:
Female: Approximate Date of Birth 1997 Date of arrival:23rd May 2003
Twigs was
a very shy animal when she arrived at LWC. Due to an accident
her right arm has become paralysed. She was living with and was
seriously dominated .......... Read
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Cross-River Gorilla
- Gorilla gorilla diehli
Nyango:
Female: Approximate Date of Birth 1990 Date of arrival:23rd March 1994
An American
Missionary from Mamfe S.W.P Cameroon brought Nyango to LWC after
raising her for three years as a family member. She saw herself
as part of a human .......... Read
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