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Patti Ragan, founder of The Center for Great Apes

Duncan — Wed, 13 May 2020 04:00:56 +0000

Owing to the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing Stay at Home order, I produced and recorded this show remotely from home, the fifth program prepared this way at the Talking Animals corporate headquarters in Jupiter Farms, Florida, and likely the way the broadcast will come together for the next few weeks. Patti Ragan—the founder of […]

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Patti Ragan, founder of The Center For Great Apes

Duncan — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 04:00:24 +0000

Patti Ragan—the founder of The Center For Great Apes, a 120-acre sanctuary in Wauchula, FL that houses nearly 50 chimpanzees and orangutans—recalls how she first became interested in great apes. That history, Ragan explains, dates back to 1984, when he volunteered on a rehabilitation project for orangutans in the rain forests of Indonesian Borneo. That […]

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Patti Ragan- Founder of The Center For Great Apes

Duncan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:46:17 +0000

Our guest is Patti Ragan–founder of The Center For Great Apes, a 100-acre sanctuary in Wauchula, FL which houses 40+ chimpanzees (including Michael Jackon’s old pal Bubbles) and the country’s largest gathering of orangutans. Ragan discusses some of the actual traits and stories attendant to captive apes as opposed to the sometimes […]

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