On the occasion of the “Welcome Jane Goodall” meeting which took place on Thursday 2 May at the Bioparco in Rome, which saw the extraordinary participation of Jane Goodall, ethologist and anthropologist known throughout the world for her pioneering studies on chimpanzees in nature and who have disclosed to the whole world the complex social relationships made up of fierce competitive struggles, but also rich in compassion and strong emotion, the Safari Ravenna announced a unique and extraordinary event: the birth of Tom, a baby chimpanzee who celebrates the success of an ambitious project born in 2018.
This is the first specimen of chimpanzee born in an Italian zoo, belonging to one of the most threatened subspecies in nature, the verus, defined as Western Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus).
It is precisely at the Ravenna facility that in 2018, on the occasion of an international conference focused on the recovery, protection and conservation of chimpanzees, the “Pan Italia” project was born, a round table for Italian zoos keeping chimpanzees in order to start a continuous comparison and sharing on modern management criteria for this species.
