News | Mona UK - Part 16

22 10, 2010

WE WOULD LIKE TO THANKS:

The Mona Fundation would like give our sincere thanks to the association Proanimals Segle XXI, in Mataró, a non profit association which was created in September 2001, the chairman of which was Cris Auferil, and has donated to us 1476,60 euros.

This centre for the protection of animals went into receivership and has given to us the remainder of their funds.
It was because of their dedication to animals that when the Parc de les Aus had to close down, they were concerned about the future of TICO and arranged for him to be transferred here to MONA. This is how we were first introduced.
It is thanks to these donations that we are able to continue with our project.
If you know of any other similar cases of this kind we would be grateful to be recommended.Thank you !

18 10, 2010

Skills acquired 7 million years ago

The preferential use of one hand over the other to perform certain tasks is a feature that reflects the functional division of the brain in the execution of a series of tasks. These findings are especially important from an evolutionary point of view and could explain the emergence of language or technology when this feature is present in humans.
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7 10, 2010

THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON…

… the chimp's outdoor enclosure. And taller!
We desperately need a grass strimmer, as the one we had has sadly passed away after eight long years of loyal service.
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23 09, 2010

MONA presents its latest projects at the XIII National and X-Latin American Conference on Ethology

As we have been doing since the 2006 edition, we took this opportunity to present the results of some of the latest projects currently being carried out: cognition, handedness, animal well-being and primate resocialization.

One of our prime objectives at this conference was to highlight the importance of ethology for us in two key areas: to help improve the well being of abused primates, and on the other hand provide ethoprimatological models to help explain the hominization process of the human being
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23 07, 2010

ITV’s This Morning PROGRAMME IS FEATURING AFRICA’s RESCUE THIS FRIDAY (July 23rd)

This will be the first of two short films made by ITV featuring Africa’s rescue and our patron TV vet Dr. Scott Miller joins our rescue team.

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22 07, 2010

THANKS VIRBAC

This is the fourth consecutive year that, thanks to their donations of veterinary material we can save a considerable amount of money in provisions that are essential at the primate rehabilitation centre.
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4 09, 2009

AFRICA ENJOYS THE SUN

After expending some quarantine months and getting used to the routine of the centre, last August the 28th Africa finally went out for the first time into the socialising cages. At the beginning she was…
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14 02, 2007

Nico’s lastest medical exam

On January 30th we took Nico to the vet clinic in Cassà de la Selva.

To Nico it seemed like he was just going on a ‘trip’ and he was delighted, but the reality of it was not as joyful. As you already know, Nico harmed himself during the first few months after his arrival at Mona and four of his five fingers presented very severe wounds. His index finger was inflammated on several occasion. The x-rays revealed that one of his phalange was dislocated. Right now we are trying to reduce the inflammation by giving him medicine and are trying to come up with the best solution to this situation. Thankfully, this whole ordeal doesn’t seem to be affecting Nico’s excitment as he continues living his normal life, as active and social as ever.

6 12, 2006

Nico’s second MRI

On November 30th, the Mona team took Nico to get his second MRI done.
It has been a year since Nico had an MRI done for the first time and since we found out he was suffering from Chiari syndrome and syringomyelia. During his surgery last January, the surgeons eliminated the malformation that had provoked a brain herniation. In Nico’s case the syringomyelia, which is a cyst, wasn’t operated on, has it can resorb itself with time. We took Nico for his second and hopefully last MRI to make sure the cyst had disappeared. The x-ray films will be sent to the neurosurgeons that operated on and we will soon receive the results.

8 10, 2006

Nico has an x-ray done!

Even if Nico hasn’t showed any signs of self-harming for months now, he still had a lot of his old wounds.

On october 6th we took him to have a x-ray done of his left hand.

In the early hours of the morning we took him to the Clinican vet clinic, near the town of Cassà de la Selva. He was very calm during the ride and he kept looking out of his cage out of pure curiosity. We did not have to anesthetize him to get the x-ray done, he was very cooperative and did not complicate the whole process. Thanks to the x-ray we were able to make sure that Nico’s bones weren’t infected however it seems that he has artritis in one of his fingers due to his old wounds.

We will keep you posted!