Young Sarah came to us in April this year, the last chimp that we have been able to accept at Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary as we are at maximum capacity until we can erect much needed semi-wild enclosures for our existing chimps and create more space. You can follow this link to read more about Sarah’s arrival with us. We made an exception for her as she is so young and Darren, who rescued her from local hunters, was leaving Sierra Leone.
Sarah on arrival with Darren and Mama Posseh
We thought that you’d like to see some updated pictures of Sarah that we managed to take last week on a rare sunny day in the middle of Sierra Leone’s rainy season. She’s doing amazingly well considering her very rough start to life, losing her mum at around 6 months old. She’s developing an adventurous and happy character. In the last few weeks we’ve been introducing her more to another member of our care staff, Manso, so that she becomes used to others also taking care of her (it also helps to give Posseh a break!).
You can see below how much she’s grown since she arrived:
Sarah with Posseh and Manso
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She’s still too small to join Tompey, Kangari, Chippe, Thulani, Samson and Delila who have all finished their time in quarantine and are waiting to be able to move into some enclosure space but still greets them happily every day as they each get a turn to move around riding on Posseh’s back. Tompey gets especially excited when she sees Sarah.
We’re making gradual progress on raising the funds for the new enclosures and hopefully it won’t be too long before we can tell Sarah that she can leave her quarantine space and move out into an enclosure with friends to play with.
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Rats. YouTube says the video’s not available. Happy to see the stills, though. Thanks. Lee
She looks wonderful! What a precious girl she is. She touched my heart from the moment I saw her. I am so happy hear she is doing well.
Hi Lee – please to report that the YouTube video is now up and running
Happy to see her on both pictures and u tubesince our last isit to the sanctuary last month. Getting Manso to help Posseh is also great. I saw Posseh carryiing Sarah on her back ( like any Sierra Leonean motherbaby) during our isit and that was so interesting to see. Keep it up at Tacugama
Saticon
H E L L O—T A C U G A M A
How Fortunate that you could make room
for Sarah!!!
Seems she is a WISE WONDER-QUEEN recog-
nized by Everybody/Every Species…
She could be the FIRST CHIMPANZEE to have
her own Blog—I hope and trust she can
share—and encourage—More Joy
and Far Less Torment in HER LIFETIME within
the Forests and Towns alike!!!
PEACE&BLESSINGS TO YOU-
HELAINE&MARTHA&MUNECO (our Cat-friend)
Oh…she is so cute and seems to love and trust her handlers! Glad to hear she is doing so well!
She is absolutely beautiful! Long and good life, Sarah! I missing Gaura. Is he fine?
Another positively beautiful baby! And it was so nice to See Posseh and Manso as well…this little one just stole my heart away