Primarily Primates, a non-profit sanctuary in Bexar County, Texas that provides lifetime care for hundreds of animals—mostly primates, including 32 chimpanzees—is among the four million without power in Texas after a rare deep freeze forced the state’s electric grid operator to impose rotating blackouts because of higher power demand. The sanctuary has been without power since early […]

Are you as big of a lemur lover as we are? We hope you’ll share some of that love with us this Valentine’s Day because in addition to caring for the 40+ lemurs at our sanctuary, we recently rescued two more! The shy but sweet male and female were saved, along with nine other animals, […]

Dear Friends, We hope your family and friends have all stayed safe and healthy during this difficult year. We are grateful for your commitment to the animals at Primarily Primates in these challenging times and we’re relying on your generosity and kindness more than ever. PPI’s work is always essential because there are always animals […]

Primarily Primates cares for four gibbons: Kimchi, Jose Maria, Junior and Sko-sho.

You’ll hear lots of pant hoots from the chimps at Primarily Primates today because of Frost Bank’s generous donation

Covid-19 may have put matchmaking on hold for humans, but at PPI the last few months have seen some successful introductions,

We need your support on October 13th’s Great Apes Giving Day 2020 event. We appreciate any donation you can make.

It is with great sadness we share the news that beloved chimp, Raisin, 47, died on Aug. 15.

She was one of our larger chimps at the sanctuary, a true gentle giant.

It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that Rosemary, 60, our longest living chimp at the sanctuary, died on July 25

At press time Primarily Primates was working with the North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance and a fundraising group to rescue three more chimpanzees from a shuttered California sanctuary.