On the occasion of our tenth anniversary, Josep Call will offer some courses in December on cognition in great apes. In addition, we are setting the basis to start a joint collaboration between the Max Planck Institute and the Mona Research Unit.
This is very good news that they are finally listening to us and those responsible for the programe have confirmed that representatives of Antena 3 and the two producers want to hear our voice.
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This 2011 we are celebrating the first 10th Anniversary of this project and have scheduled a series of activities and events throughout the year to celebrate it.
Today Feb. 10th officially begins the start of these events with the presence of…
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From next Monday 27 December the enrollment period will be open for the various 2011 courses. We will be offering a total of 18 courses structured in 5 areas: Primatology and Ethology, Conservation and Management, Human Evolution, Photography and Drawing, and Natural Sciences. These will consist of: Primate Cognition Seminars I and II, Chimpanzee Protection; Naturalistic Drawing and Improvement in Nature Photography, amongst others. New developments have been the addition of two courses on the Management and Care of Primates course, and a further level on the Origins and Evolution of Human Behavior II course.
It’s been an extremely difficult day for us at MONA. We end it with the sad news that our dear Romie has passed away.
As we informed you yesterday, today she was to undergo surgery to remove the uterine mass we found during a special health check on Tuesday. Unfortunately, during the operation we discovered with great shock that most of her organs were seriously affected by tumors, Romie had been living her normal life until last weekend when she didn’t want to join her group outside in the big enclosures. Her health had rapidly declined since then and we now know why. Her body was not been able to cope with the surgery that merely would have extended her suffering for a few more days.
We will always remember her as our sweet Romie, and hope that over time the family will learn to live without her, as so will we. Once more we thank you for your support which has enabled her to live at MONA in what were surely the best years of her life.
MONA Foundation
We have to inform to you that tomorrow we will operate Romie.
Recently, we saw that she was not 100% and before yesterday we did a complete health check. We saw that she has a mass in the uterus, has also affected kidneys and the blood tests show she is weakened. So tomorrow we are proceeding to operate her.
We will keep you updated and as soon as we know something we will let you know via email.
The TV crew of KOPERNIK, a program for the diffusion of science, came to our centre to know about the projects and research hold by Mona’s Research Unit and Ethological Laboratory.
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