The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary
Views: 1,956 views. Comments: No Comment.
Tags: UQP, winter-2011
An edited excerpt from The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary, published by UQP
This is the story of a family of troubled animals who live on a farm in the French Canadian countryside.
It is the story of how these animals came to be so troubled and how they are slowly becoming less so, in their own particular ways, through the actions of a small group of people led by Gloria Grow.
When I say these animals are a family, I don’t mean they share a mother or father or brothers or sisters (although some of them surely do).
They are a family in the sense that any group of beings who have lived together, suffered together, and triumphed together becomes a family.
They are related in the way that we are all related to one another, and here lies the source of their great misfortune.
I first contacted Gloria in 1998, when I was a college biology student.
I wrote to inquire about volunteer opportunities at the Fauna Foundation, the sanctuary for rescued animals that Gloria had recently founded with her partner, a veterinarian named Richard Allan, on their 240-acre hobby farm near Chambly.
The foundation had recently been all over the local, national, and international news because it had just become the permanent retirement home for a very special group of chimpanzees.
At the time I was one of thousands of young biology students who, inspired by the usual suspects (Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, the breathless David Attenborough), would have done just about anything to get a job either working with or studying great apes — the orangutans, gorillas, bonobos, and chimpanzees most of us have seen only in a zoo or in the pages of National Geographic.
Andrew Westoll, UQP, RRP $34.95
Dane: Hello. magnificent job. I did not expect this. This is a excellent story. Thanks!
foreclosures Florida: I have been browsing online more than three hours today, yet I never found any interesting...
Tempe Emergency Dentist: Keep up the great piece of work, I read few articles on this internet site and I think that...
changemacaddress.com: As soon as I noticed this site I went on reddit to share some of the love with them....
trying to get pregnant: I have been checking out some of your posts and i can claim pretty clever stuff. I will...
- Home
- Graduate Contact
- Alumni Profiles
- Global Education: Divining world trends












It‘s quiet in here! Why not leave a response?