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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Cozi is an 11 year old chimp that was born in America and sold to a photographer in Italy to be used as a prop. Cozi had been with the photographer for a while, traveling with him to shoots and jobs. The photographer later dies while

Cozi is still a baby and gets left to be taken care of by the photographers girlfriend, who is later found out to be afraid of Cozi. As a result of this she locks Cozi up in a cage in a trailer home, locks the doors and the curtains and never lets him out again!
NINE …read more

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