Center for Great Apes

The Center for Great Apes’ mission is to provide a permanent sanctuary for orangutans and chimpanzees who have been rescued or retired from the entertainment industry, from research, or from the exotic pet trade; to educate the public about captive great apes and the threats to conservation of great apes in the wild; and to advocate for the end of the use of great apes as entertainers, research subjects, and pets.

Center for Great Apes

Date opened	1993
Location	Wauchula, Florida
No. of animals	47
No. of species	21 Orangutans 26 Chimpanzees
Website	www.centerforgreatapes.org

Center for Orangutan and Chimpanzee Conservation, Inc

Tax ID no.	65-0444725[1]
Revenue (2015)	$1,956,713

Notable residents

• Bubbles – former companion of Michael Jackson.[2][3]
• Bella – CareerBuilder 2004 Super Bowl XL campaign.[4][5]
• Sam "Sammy" (former) – starred in the movie Dunston Checks In.[6]
• Sandra – Orangutan declared a "non-human person" in Argentina after spending 20 years at Buenos Aires Zoo.[7]

References

1. "CENTER FOR ORANGUTAN AND CHIMPANZEE CONSERVATION INC Form 990 2015". ProPublica. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
2. Furness, Dyllan (February 2, 2016). "Michael Jackson's Pet Chimp is Living Out His Twilight Years in Florida". New Times Broward-Palm Beach. Archived from the original on July 6, 2017. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
3. Mufson, Beckett (June 28, 2017). "Michael Jackson's Famous Chimp, Bubbles, Is Selling Paintings to Get By". Vice. Archived from the original on June 2, 2019. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
4. Ragan, Patti (February 7, 2011). "Super Bowl commercials: What happens to those CareerBuilder chimps?". The Christian Science Monitor (Opinion). Archived from the original on May 8, 2013. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
5. Royce, Brenda Scott (February 13, 2011). "For CareerBuilder Chimps, Sadly, the Joke Is On Them". The Huffington Post. Archived from the original on November 8, 2019. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
6. Sokol, Zach (April 22, 2015). "All the Animals From Your Favorite Childhood Movies Are Dead". Vice. Archived from the original on July 29, 2019. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
7. "Orangutan Sandra granted personhood settles into new Florida home". The Guardian. November 7, 2019. Archived from the original on November 8, 2019. Retrieved November 8, 2019.

Further reading

• White, Gary (January 17, 2009). "Wauchula Center a Sanctuary for Chimpanzees, Orangutans". The Ledger. Archived from the original on November 8, 2019. Retrieved November 8, 2019.