Our dear Nico turns 15 years old today! He has nothing to do with the traumatized little chimp who came here back in 2004. It’s already been 11 years and we have been lucky enough to share them with this special being, we’ve suffered with him, and spent many happy moments following his progresses and we continue to marvel at his self-improvement capability .
Congratulations dear Nico and may you see many more!
If you go to the movies, get your pop-corn and sweets, make yourself confortable and open your eyes to see the most expected comercial of the season: MONA's new advertisement....
We are extremly proud to present our new MONASupport company. The study of design and communication I / O is socially responsible company and works for primate welfare!
The MONA Foundation is getting ready to transport Cheeta to its facilities, the only chimpanzee that survived an attempted escape from a zoo in Fuerteventura (Canary Islands).
Mona contacted the Seprona of Mallorca in order to get more information about the past of these chimpanzees and their current situation as well as to offer our facilities as a safe haven for Adán...
Here you have a video of that day (a little warning: better not to be watched by people that are afraid of dentists!!)
The time has finally come!!! Africa´s bad teething has finally been revised and repaired (and it was more than one tooth that needed attention). It was a tricky and long procedure, but our beloved dentist Gerardo and his Team, together with our veterinarian Josep did a fantastic job!
We will never know for sure, but her bad teething was probably the result of falling from a tree when Africa and her family were poached in the wild, producing a fracture in her jaw. In continuation due to being an illegally imported exotic animal, there was no veterinarian checking or healing her jar and living in-between humans, eating an inadequate human diet was not helping either. But we finally managed to improve this aspect of her health condition.
Here you have a video of that day
(a little warning: better not to be watched by people that are afraid of dentists!!)
We are very happy with the results. After only a few days África started eating normal again. A big success and a big relieve at the same time, knowing that she won´t suffer due to her teeth anymore.
Many thanks to all of you who helped us make all this possible and especially to Montse who funded and donated our new anaesthetic machine. Money well invested, considering that it will make all veterinarian procedures, such as África´s teeth reparation, a lot saver from now on.
Finally, for the first time after 30 years of solitude...
Perhaps you saw that over the last weeks friends of MONA started to fund the MONArunners, participating in official marathons. And now we have our first MONArunner in the UK, Jane decided to run for the primates at MONA trying to help raise some funds for the primates at the Sanctuary.
We received great news from our friends at the Sanctuary Stichting AAP in Holland. Linda could finally visit her new outside enclosure! At first she was quite nervous.
Yes we are in Spain… yes we typically have a lot of sun and normally tend to suffer from hot instead of cold weather… but still we get some cold days here as well.