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Taï chimpanzees featured in Hollywood movie
Oscar, Freddy and Isha are the stars of the new Disneynature film CHIMPANZEE which opens in France on February 20th, 2013 and in Germany on May 09th, 2013! This marks the first time ever that a feature film was shot entirely in the wild, and uses footage from the chimpanzees living in the Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire and in the Ngogo area of the Kibale National Park, Uganda. The 3 main stars, Oscar, Freddy and Isha, belong to the chimpanzee groups that Max Planck Director Christophe Boesch and his team have studied for the last 33 years in Côte d’Ivoire.
For more detailed information go to:
http://www.schimpansen.mpg.de
http://www.eva.mpg.de/primat/staff/boesch
http://www.wildchimps.org
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press release (english)
press release (german)
press release (french)