{"id":156,"date":"2010-11-29T19:01:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T19:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2014-03-09T09:13:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T09:13:02","slug":"ngamba-island-chimpanzee-sanctuary-entebbe-day-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/2010\/11\/ngamba-island-chimpanzee-sanctuary-entebbe-day-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Entebbe, Day 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Chimpanzees are under threat constantly in Africa due to over population, deforestation, witchcraft and bush meat trade.\u00a0 To help preserve and understand these animals better the Island was given to mistreated chimps to provide them with a better life.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On the island visitor are welcomed and\u00a0educated\u00a0on the effects the pressures of man have on the chimpanzee population in Africa.\u00a0\u00a0 We visit the island via a local boat, a get\u00a0to learn\u00a0about what the island is used for and the progress that is being made to try and help wild chimps.\u00a0 The tour ends with a feeding of the 44 resident chimps. They scream, hoot and plead for food all to our enjoyment.<\/p>\n

Chain of Shame was worn by\u00a0Lisa.<\/p>\n

Tip of the day: <\/em><\/strong>Even though chimpanzees may occasionally throw things at you they are definitely not as accurate shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chimpanzees are under threat constantly in Africa due to over population, deforestation, witchcraft and bush meat trade.\u00a0 To help preserve and understand these animals better the Island was given to mistreated chimps to provide them with a better life.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,557,580,578,579,577,582,581],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14th-nov-2010-absolute-safari-on-shaggy-denis","tag-absolute-africa","tag-african-adventures","tag-chimpanzees-are-under-threat","tag-entebbe","tag-feeding-of-the-44-resident-chimps","tag-ngamba-island-chimpanzee-sanctuary","tag-provide-them-with-a-better-life","tag-witchcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}