{"id":521044,"date":"2026-04-09T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521044\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:00:08","slug":"chimp-rescued-from-cruelty-in-hampshire-marks-30th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521044\/","title":{"rendered":"Chimp rescued from cruelty in Hampshire marks 30th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All those years ago we confiscated a baby chimpanzee that had been abused and neglected from the time of her birth, when she was taken away from her natural family,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Trudy had an army of supporters demanding justice on her behalf and defending her right to remain with her adopted family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For Trudy, the other chimpanzees in that family were key to her rehabilitation, giving her the love, care and support that any child requires.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After her rescue, Trudy&#8217;s former owner applied to have her returned, while supporters campaigned for her to remain at the sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They included conservationists and primate experts Sir David Attenborough and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cgj1pz8q63go\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dame Jane Goodall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Monkey World said her recovery showed the importance of giving rescued animals the chance to live alongside their own species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;All those years ago we confiscated a baby chimpanzee that had been abused and neglected from the time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-521044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}