In this 5th and final interview by Eugene Cousins from Animal Planet’s Escape to Chimp Eden he speaks about what would surprise people about the chimps. He speaks about the level of trust that chimps have as well as their forgiving nature. He speaks specifically to Jao and all the hardships he’d encountered in his life and the ultimate bond that they built between each other.

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 individual chimp stories?” In this video clip Eugene speaks about his relationship with chimps Jao and Cozy. He speaks about how close he came with Jao as well as the struggles that Cozi faced due to his age.

Watch the video clip below to receive your answers. Keep pulling for the chimps by watching the show when it re-airs next season.

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 risks faced with making Chimp Eden possible?”

Watch the video clip below to receive your answers. Keep pulling for the chimps by watching the show when it re-airs next season.

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 second question that we’ll tackle from this season is “What does it take to start Chimp Eden?”

Watch the video clip below to receive your answers. Keep pulling for the chimps by watching the show when it re-airs next season.

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 receive your answers. Keep pulling for the chimps by watching the show when it re-airs next season.

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 issues going on in Sudan at the time of Eugene’s visit. When Eugene arrives in Sudan he is faced with alot of rain and flooding even though it is just the beginning of the rainy season.

When Eugene arrives at the local he now realizes that there are 7 chimps as opposed to the 5 chimp permits that he’d applied for. Eugene has to make the sad decision of selecting which 5 chimps he can take back with him to Chimp Eden. Eugene needs to get the chimps out as quickly as possible. The locals are very insecure and consider them to be a threat and addition thee of the chimps are babies.

Watch an itunes clip below as Eugene brings the baby chimps home.

Image Source: Brent Stirton / Getty Images (Eugene with rescued chimp Sally)

The season finale of Animal Planets hit show, Escape to Chimp Eden will air on Friday, May 9th at 9PM ET/PT. The season consisted of 11 episodes and followed Eugene Cousins as he rescued and rehabilitated 13 chimps that had been abused and neglected throughout Africa.

In this 12th and final episode, Eugene will try to figure out how he is going to integrate this many chimps in the sanctuary and at what costs, including financial. This will be a must watch episode as Jao’s rehabilitation is threatened due to his lack of assimilation with the other chimps in the sanctuary. If you recall, Jao is the oldest chimp in the sanctuary and has has many hardships.

Catch the final episode tomorrow night at 9PM ET/PT on Animal Planet.

About a month ago Eugene Cousins from Escape to Chimp Eden was on the Ellen DeGenres show. Eugene talks about Zac, the chimp that was profiled on Chimp Eden and rescued after being chained to a tree for 17 years. Eugene talks about him he works with the chimps and helps them to trust humans again.

The show also profiled Cozi who had never been in a tree in his life…things that should come so basic to these animals.

Watch the 8 minute video below as you learn more about Zac, Cozi and Xena.

Back in episode 5 of Escape to Chimp Eden we met the Angolan Girls that were being introduced to the adult enclosure. Now Jinga, who is a new 13 year old female chimp, is going to be introduced to this already established family group with the 3 males and 3 Angolan females. She’s going to first me introduced to the three females, Mimi, Gita and Lika. Now if you recall these were some feisty girls that were NOT taking any mess from the 3 males that had already been living in the enclosure.

Gita was actually very friendly and started off by giving Jinga a hug, but Mimi was kind of in her own world and not paying any attention. Eugene was really more worried about introducing her to the boys and hoping that a fight wouldn’t break out. He even thought about dispersing some bullets over the walls of the enclosure in case anything happens. Check back to see what happens as well as how Jinga interacts with the female chimps and those rowdy male chimps.

Image Source: Brent Stirton/Getty Images

In episode 5 of Escape to Chimp Eden we were introduced to the Angolan Girls and the struggles that they went through prior to him rescuing them from Angola.

Eugene was worried about introducing the three new girls to the male chimps in the adult compound and wasn’t sure what to do because these male chimps were known to be violent and aggressive. The Angolan Girlshad been in quarantine for a period of three months and are now ready to be released.

When the male chimps saw the female chimps they literally went crazy through the bars, and the females hadn’t even entered the same compound area as the males yet. Mimi is the first female chimp to join in with the males. They just chased her around but didn’t get too aggressive. She just acted like she was happy to be free. She had been caged up for so many years when in Angola and hadn’t even touched grass with her feet before.

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