HOT TOPIC Posts - Chimpanzees and Orangutans - UPDATED 12.1.19!

7.3.20 Update ... Redated this post to before Shutdown, to keep current situation at top.

This post will be pinned here, for the foreseeable future, using a date in the future as the posting date.

The last post (linked at end) presented the specs for the current areas within the Great Ape Passage (GAP).  I used those specs against the AZA Care Manual recommended Guidelines for Chimpanzees and Orangutans.  Presenting the facts of sizing, I showed that rotating these two species through the only two available areas of the unfinished GAP project, is not feasible.  I also questioned Why the AZA (Association of Zoos and Aquariums) would allow a transfer of Orangutans to the San Francisco Zoo, before there was a proper living space for them?  

Considering that last post's inclusion in regard to the AZA, I'm going to add two post spacers before this post, for flow purposes.  I hope to get to them next weekend, but regular followers know that I procrastinate because I get overwhelmed thinking about these Zoo wrongs.  I currently have a spacer for an AZA post I intended to write months ago.  Dated 6.23.19, the title of that post, Is The AZA a Questionable Leader in Zoo Animal Welfare? , will probably be bumped into one of the new spacers.

Another post I never got to compiling, this one, HOT TOPIC Posts - Chimpanzees and Orangutans.  I meant to add all the links to relevant posts on the current GAP situation.  So I will do that here now.

Thank you to all who follow along here, even though I'm not always as consistent or timely as I hope to be. 

Previous post referred to:
11.3.19 Week Eleven Orangutan Update ... AZA Habitat Guidelines For Great Apes
https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2019/11/aza-habitat-guidelines-for-great-apes.html

HOT TOPIC POSTS Related to Great Ape Passage project being unfinished and how that has and continues to affect the Orangutans and Chimpanzees.

12.1.19 The Future - Orangutan Week Fifteen and Beyond
https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-future-orangutan-week-fifteen-and.html

11.30.19 Understanding How The Orangutan Acquisitions Got Approved - Pyramid of Power
https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2019/11/understanding-how-orangutan.html

11.30.19 Thanksgiving Words from SFZoo Director - Are You Kidding Me?

https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2019/11/thanksgiving-words-from-sfzoo-director.html

11.23.19 I Support Empathy and Compassion. - Orangutan Update Week Fourteen 11.18.19
https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2019/11/supporting-empathy-and-compassion.html

11.23.19 Orangutan Watches Chimp Birthday. How Long Will This Go On.- Week Thirteen 11.11.19
https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2019/11/its-orangutan-caring-week-does-sfzoo.html

11.17.19 Week Twelve Orangutan Update 11.4.19
https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2019/11/its-orangutan-caring-week-does-sfzoo.html

11.11.19 Orangutan Caring Week - Does the SFZoo Director Care About the Orangutans?
https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2019/11/its-orangutan-caring-week-does-sfzoo.html

11.3.19 Week Eleven Orangutan Update ... AZA Habitat Guidelines For Great Apes
https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2019/11/aza-habitat-guidelines-for-great-apes.html

11.2.19  Week Ten Orangutan Update
https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2019/11/orangutan-update-week-nine-102119-amoi.html

10.20.19 Week Nine Orangutan Update
https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2019/10/orangutan-update-week-eight-still-stuck.html

10.16.19 Week Eight Orangutan Update
https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2019/10/orangutan-update-week-of-10719.html

9.29.19 How Long Will Orangutans Live in the Skytrails?
https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2019/09/how-long-will-orangutans-live-in.html

9.29.19 SFZoo Board Members ... Tour Great Ape Passage
https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2019/09/members-meeting-sfzoo-board-members.html

9.8.19 Triple Grotto Renovation Post Follow-up - Orangutans
https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2019/09/triple-grotto-renovation-post-follow-up.html

9.2.19  Triple Grotto Renovation - When? and What?
https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2019/09/triple-grotto-renovation-when-and-what.html

8.18.19 Chimps Haven't Been Outside in Almost Two Months!
https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2019/08/chimps-havent-been-outside-in-almost.html