Chimpanzee in Spain chosen as Wild Animal Unique Personality Award finalist

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Chimpanzee in Spain chosen as Wild Animal Unique Personality Award finalist

STORY: Chimpanzee in Spain chosen as Wild Animal Unique Personality Award finalist DATELINE: Sept. 6, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:14 LOCATION: BARCELONA, Spain CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of chimpanzees in the Mona Foundation 2. various of Nico STORYLINE: Nico is one of the chimpanzees that live at the Mona Foundation in the town of Riudellots de la Selva, in northern Spain, and is among the 5 finalists for the Wild Animal Unique Personality Award granted by World Animal Protection, an entity that wants to sensitize people about the protection of wild species. Nico arrived at the center in 2004 and is competing for this world prize with a brown bear from Romania, an anteater from Costa Rica, an elephant from Cambodia and a puma from Costa Rica who, like him, also live in reserves and wildlife protection centers animals. This chimpanzee will soon be 23 years old and has always had health problems. He was the first non-human primate to be diagnosed with Chiari syndrome, a malformation that affects the ne

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