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Keeping Gaura warm

Category: Chimpanzee, Tacugama | Date: Jan 10 2008 | By: admin

Gaura is doing fine so far. This week the harmattan winds (from the Sahara) are blowing hard around the sanctuary and it is very chilly. Despite sleeping indoors with blankets and so on, he is so tiny that in the morning he shivers and we’ve had to dress him in pyjamas to keep him warmer. In the mornings he sits outside with Posseh under the sun till it warms up. Otherwise, he is on medication as his respiratory infection was getting worse and he started having fever and losing appetite. Now he seems better, and is already drinking milk with enthusiasm.

The education officer from Gola Forest was told that Gaura was caught in a trap, but he doesn’t have any trap marks and he is too small as to think he could wander away from his mother’s side. So it is more probable that his mother was caught in a trap, killed and the baby taken away which is the heart breaking reality for many of our chimpanzees in Tacugama.

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11 Responses to “Keeping Gaura warm”

Sheryl, Washington, DC, on 10 Jan 2008

What a sweet, little chimpanzee. I will never understand as long as I live how humans can harm any other creature on this planet (I’m vegan). I hope he stays warm and starts to grow healthy and strong. I think Mama Posseh has the coolest job ever.

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paula, on 10 Jan 2008

Lovely!

Lisa, California, on 10 Jan 2008

He is adorable. Thank you for taking such good care of him. Lisa

Wanda, Atlanta, on 10 Jan 2008

Gosh he is just the sweetest little guy how can you kill his mom -
I hate it - I just hate it that it keeps happening!

Christine C., on 10 Jan 2008

Baby Guara in his pajamas…nothing could be sweeter than that, what a cutie…thank you Mama Posseh for taking such good care of this little guy. I too am stunned how anyone could have a heart so cold as too hurt such a gentle, wonderful creature.

F. J. PECHIR, on 10 Jan 2008

Just lovely!! please keep your work going!!!

Lucia Cristiana, Brazil, on 10 Jan 2008

Gaura is a handsome little chimp. This photo do remember Bruno baby. I believe that he will grow up and become so beautiful as Bruno.

THERESA SISKIND, on 11 Jan 2008

Many emotions stirred up with the photo of Gauro in his p.j.’s, how precious he is and how tragic he is not in the wild with his group. I’m moved to tears over the plight of these orphaned chimps and their mothers who have been killed. No words can express my graditude for all your hard, heartbreaking work.

Lucia Cristiana, Brazil, on 11 Jan 2008

Bala and Mama Posseh,
Thank you for your wonderful work.
It is obvious that Mama Posseh’s affection operates miracles with those precisosos babies. I have just donated $100 for Tacugama, milk for Gaura. I adopt Gaura like a son with all my love, from deep to my heart. Excuse me because I don’t speak english very well, I’m learning it at little time. You know, in Brazil (Brasil) we speak portuguese as Portugal.

THERESA SISKIND, on 11 Jan 2008

Oh, Lucia, I wish we were neighbors! Bless you for your big heart and generosity.

Lucia Cristiana, Brazil, on 11 Jan 2008

Thank you Theresa to affable words. Me too wish we were neighbors. Perhaps we can to meet us at Africa. I will travel on vacation to Germany at 2008, 7 March. From there I will go to Rwanda to see my beloved Mountain Gorillas and Dian Fossey’s grave. Who know do you go too and we meet us there. Would be a great honor to know a person so sensitive as you are.

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