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🍉🩷🌞 now accepting donations for fruit par 🍉🩷🌞
now accepting donations for fruit parties hehe link in bio
Are you interested in volunteering at our sanctuar Are you interested in volunteering at our sanctuary? Join us this Saturday, July 26 at 10AM for a volunteer orientation event! Please email office@primarilyprimates.org to RSVP. 
ONLY PEOPLE WHO HAVE RSVP’D WILL BE ALLOWED ON THE PROPERTY!

Volunteers must be ages 18+ and able to commit to one four hour shift per month. Volunteers will have no direct contact with the animals. Our animals have specific needs that can only be provided by the paid professional staff.

Volunteers are so important to us...whether they’re picking up or chopping produce, helping out at events, making toys or equipment for animals to use, or assisting in some other way, they’re helping the animals to feel loved. ❤️
Shu Shu wants you to know she was voted sanctuary Shu Shu wants you to know she was voted sanctuary sweetheart 🫶 and she also wanted to remind you that it costs around $40,000 annually 😱 to care for one chimp at PPI!! 

As a non-profit, we rely heavily on donations from generous animal lovers to provide top-notch, lifelong care for our residents. Read more about our work at the link in our bio 🔗 Please donate here or at the link in our bio, or share to spread the word❤️ Shu Shu says thank you🦍🖤

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the selfie you were all dying to see xoxo, Emma the selfie you were all dying to see 

xoxo, 
Emma 👑✨
WORLD CHIMPANZEE DAY 🥳🦍❤️ @primarily_pr WORLD CHIMPANZEE DAY 🥳🦍❤️

@primarily_primates is a Texas-based sanctuary managed by @foaorg 

With 32 chimps in our care, costs to maintain their wellbeing is easily over $900k per year😳 Your donations allow us to provide them with the best care, every dollar counts! Link to donate or sponsor a chimp is in our bio ❤️ If you can’t donate, please engage with this post for more reach!!! 

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Primarily Primates is now a part of the Wildlife C Primarily Primates is now a part of the Wildlife Confiscations Network 🎉 We’re honored to be a part of this pilot program which aims to reduce wildlife trafficking and create a coordinated system to ensure the care and welfare of confiscated wildlife. Our work within this network is crucial! To learn more, and to donate to our lifesaving work, head to the link in our bio🐒❤️
tuesday mood tuesday mood
Though we are safe over here at PPI, our hearts ar Though we are safe over here at PPI, our hearts are with the victims, families, friends, and first responders affected by the tragic flood in our home state this weekend. Through this unimaginable tragedy, we have faith that our community will come together to lift up those who need it most. Donations can be made to organizations such as these that are directly helping in search efforts and providing relief to those who have been displaced: TEXSAR, Kerr County Flood Relief Fund, and Salvation Army. ❤️❤️❤️
attention humans this is your reminder that july 1 attention humans this is your reminder that july 14 is world chimpanzee day 🎉 if you love us, send fruit parties (link in bio) 🍉🍇🍌🍍❤️

xo deeter

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Felix needs your help💔 Primarily Primates relie Felix needs your help💔 Primarily Primates relies on donations to help provide the best care possible, we have over 300 residents in our care here. Our staff and volunteers are doing the best they can, but we need more help! 

Click the link in our bio to sponsor Felix, or to make a one time donation. Every dollar truly counts. If you can’t donate at this time, please like, share etc to get this in front of more eyes. ❤️❤️❤️

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Introducing you to…Felix✨ Felix, a ~6 month o Introducing you to…Felix✨

Felix, a ~6 month old spider monkey was brought by San Antonio Animal Control to FoA managed sanctuary, Primarily Primates. As a non-profit, PPI is only able to survive through donations. Click the link in @primarily_primates bio to make a one time donation, or to sponsor Felix or another resident ❤️ Follow his journey here! 🐒🖤

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hi humans!!! im new here…raise your hand if you hi humans!!! im new here…raise your hand if you wanna know my name 🙈🙋🍌 

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meet our new friend 🕷️🐒🖤 meet our new friend 🕷️🐒🖤
attention internet humans… our humans are too bu attention internet humans… our humans are too busy rescuing baby spider monkeys (more on that later) so we’ll be running the insta from now on. comment and tell them to throw me a fruit party, thanks 🍎🍉🍌🍏🥝🍇🥭🍐❤️❤️❤️
Meet Saffron ✨ Saffron arrived at PPI in May of Meet Saffron ✨ 
Saffron arrived at PPI in May of 2015 along with Olive from a university research lab that was closing. Sadly, they were on the verge of being euthanized since they were no longer needed 😢 Today Saffron is thriving! When she came to PPI, Saffron experienced grass and trees for the very first time🌳💚
 
Care staff describe Saffron as timid…except for when she’s hungry. She will slam her toys down on the ground to let everyone know she’s ready for a snack😅 She spends most of her time perched high up a tree. Like other Old-World monkeys, baboons do not have prehensile (gripping) tails. But they can and do climb trees to sleep, eat or look out for trouble. Want to support Saffron + our other amazing residents? We are fully funded by donations, link in bio to give what you can! Every dollar counts 🩵

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The gorgeous weather in San Antonio today made for The gorgeous weather in San Antonio today made for some great playtime 🌞 Mar spent the day enjoying some (non toxic) bubbles 🫧

Your support allows us to ensure our residents get the best care! Link in bio to donate, every dollar counts 🫶

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Pant-hoots for the airwomen and airmen from Lackla Pant-hoots for the airwomen and airmen from Lackland Air Force Base who recently volunteered with us. They made enrichment items, chopped produce and organized our winter barn. And of course fell in love with Baxter, who was born in 1999 in a lab for experimental medicine that is now defunct. He later became property of The Buckshire Corp., which leased animals for scientific and cosmetic testing. It eventually leased Baxter and Walter, another chimp at PPI, to a German television show called “Martin’s Working Wildlife”—which trained them to perform tricks for television audiences. When they reached an age where they were difficult to control, they were returned to the United States before finding their way to PPI. 

When you volunteer with PPI, you’re giving animals like Baxter (and their caretakers!) one of the greatest gifts of all — your time. Whether you’re picking up or chopping produce, helping out at events, making toys or equipment for animals to use, or assisting in some other way, you’re helping the animals to feel loved. 

THANK YOU!
Like our name suggests, our residents are mostly p Like our name suggests, our residents are mostly primates. However, did you know Primarily Primates rescued three wild horses from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s life of imprisonment! 

We adore this beautiful moment between Comanche and Bindi. We call this photo “I’ve Got Your Back.” Horses groom each other, also known as allogrooming, as a way to maintain social bonds, communicate, and remove dirt, sweat, and parasites. Mutual grooming strengthens relationships, promotes trust, and can be a way to restore troubled relationships.
Herbie, one of our newest residents, is in a Texas Herbie, one of our newest residents, is in a Texas state of mind! Clearly he’s adjusting and embracing his new chapter at Primarily Primates, along with Emma, CJ and Jackson. 

Born on March 26, 1986, Herbie is the alpha of the family—a bold, vocal and larger-than-life personality who thrives in the spotlight. Whether he’s making his presence known with enthusiastic vocalizations or engaging in playful antics, Herbie knows how to command attention. But beneath his boisterous exterior lies a caring and considerate leader who looks out for his family. He is good at deflating any conflict among the group. He also has a quirky side—Herbie loves collecting his favorite treasures, including hats, shoes and magazines, which he proudly carries with him wherever he goes. With his mix of confidence, charm and heart, Herbie is truly one of a kind!

Herbie would LOVE a sponsor, and we’re actively looking for caring individuals to help! 

Please consider sponsoring Herbie. A link to his sponsorship page is in the comments!
Primates are not meant to be pets or playthings. Primates are not meant to be pets or playthings. 

That’s why Primarily Primates applauds Congress’ reintroduction of the Captive Primate Safety Act, which would end the pet primate trade in the US. 

@foaorg, which has managed PPI since 2007, will work tirelessly to get it signed into law! 

PPI knows all too well that primates—who are highly social and intelligent—belong in the wild and not exploited as pets. A staggering 100 of our 199 primates are ex-pets. 

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