Animal Planet’s hit series Escape to Chimp Eden, which focuses on the plight of the African chimps and Eugene Cousin’s quest to rescue them is now over. Over the course of the season, many of you had questions about how to help Eugene or how the chimps came to be in the situations that they were in.
Eugene has taken the time to answer some of these pressing questions. I thought I’d post some videos regarding some of the questions that you all have been asking. The fourth question that we’ll tackle from this season is “What were some of the …read more

Animal Planet’s hit series Escape to Chimp Eden, which focuses on the plight of the African chimps and Eugene Cousin’s quest to rescue them is now over. Over the course of the season, many of you had questions about how to help Eugene or how the chimps came to be in the situations that they were in.
Eugene has taken the time to answer some of these pressing questions. I thought I’d post some videos regarding some of the questions that you all have been asking. The third question that we’ll tackle from this season is “What were some of the …read more

Animal Planet’s hit series Escape to Chimp Eden, which focuses on the plight of the African chimps and Eugene Cousin’s quest to request them is now over. Over the course of the season, many of you had questions about how to help Eugene or how the chimps came to be in the situations that they were in.
Eugene has taken the time to answer some of these pressing questions. I thought I’d post some videos regarding some of the questions that you all have been asking. The first question that Eugene will answer is “What is the Bushmeat Trade?”
Watch the video clip below to …read more

Alot of chimps that are at chimp Eden arrived due to the bushman trade. In this episode of Escape to Chimp Eden, Eugene is going to the Sudan to rescue five baby chimps. The twist of this episode is that he needs to make it back to his wife in time as she is 7 months pregnant and expected to give birth at anytime. This episode of Escape to Chimp Eden originally aired on April 11th at 9PM ET/PT.
It takes Eugene about 10 hours to fly to the Sudan. His wife is very scared because there are so many political …read more

In this episode of Escape to Chimp Eden, Eugene and the team are working to release three females into the outdoor enclosure.
This is the first time that these chimps will have been able to feel grass under their feet or even able to climb trees since they’d been at the Eden.
Essentially, to give you a background on how things are set-up at Chimp Eden is that they have 2 enclosures, one of the adult males and one for the adult females. The males in the male sanctuary are very aggressive and none of the keepers really go in because of …read more

According to a recent report from the National Science Foundation chimps may already have a “language” ready brain. What this means is that scientist believe that chimps may have communication and language behaviors that are similar to humans.
The results of a study done by Yerkes National Primate Research Center suggest that there are similarities in which the ways our brains produce signals during communication.
This research is very interesting and fascinating because it is very evident and can be seen in the way that the chimps on Escape to Chimp Eden communicate with each other as well as with Eugene.
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Chimp Eden is paradise for chimps that have been abused and been captured.
In the previous episode Eugene wasn’t able to get the chimps out now he will stop at no cost to rescue Josephine and the others. In this episode, Eugene’s quest was to rescue Tony and Sampa, two chimps that were being held in a small cage behind a restaurant. The two chimps were being teased daily by the people that were taking care of them and they were also addicted to beer. These two chimps were so violent because of the way that they were being treated. …read more

This Escape to Chimp Eden episode aired last Friday and it was part one of a two part series where Eugene is attempting to rescue a chimp named Josephine. Josephine is stashed in an abandoned warehouse in Angola where she basically tries to survive each day. Her owners plan of euthanizing her an basically throughout the episode Eugene is trying to race against the clock to save her. Its so sad and it breaks my hear to see how these animals are being mistreated just so someone can make a few dollars. In Eugene’s effort to rescue Josephine, and while …read more

Escape to Chimp Eden premiered on Animal Planet on February 8th. The series examines the rescue of abused and neglected chimpanzees. According to Animal Planet, chimps have been caught up in the turmoil of war-torn countries and then become orphans of the bushmeat trade, where they are sold at markets or auctions. With only 150,000 chimps remaining in the wild, the chimpanzee population is being destroyed and the lives of these animals are being degraded. According to Animal Planet, “In South Africa, there’s a sanctuary for chimpanzees rescued from the horrors of human captivity – physical abuse, malnutrition, abandonment and …read more