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CAPTIVE BREEDING

Although chimpanzees breed well in captivity, fertility amongst captive bred individuals appears to be low.6 Only about 16% of captive reared males breed, compared to over 80% for wild-caught males.6 At the end of 1991, a total of 58 surviving young chimpanzees had been born at zoological institutions; Atlanta Regional Primate Research Centre, USA, bred nine of these.17 Numbers held in laboratory colonies and their breeding success is not known.





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