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Estas fotos fueron tomadas por Sylvia Jones y enviadas al Centro de Primates en Agosto de 2011.
Toto fue rescatado de un circo el 29 de Enero de 2003 en una operación conjunta entre el SAG y el Centro de Rehabilitacion y Rescate de Primates, apoyados por el programa Contacto que mostró su realidad en el circo en un programa que causó impacto y que hasta hoy es recordado como uno de los mas vistos. El zoologico nacional apoyó con su equipo médico-dental dejándolo en muy buenas condiciones para su traslado a Zambia.
Toto permaneció en el Centro de Primates rehabilitándose durante 7 meses recibiendo apoyo economico de ADI para su mantencion.
Fue trasladado a Zambia, Africa por DHL, Lan Chile y South African Airways.
El chimpancé Toto vivió durante 27 años en circos donde era forzado a trabajar entreteniendo a personas indiferentes al maltrato al que era sometido, obligado a fumar, beber café, encerrado y encadenado en una pequeña caja que está actualmente en el Centro de Primates como una muestra de la forma inhumana en que viven los primates en los circos.
El rescate de Toto fue posible despues de 2 largos años de trabajo de animalistas chilenos entre los que se destaca Jose Luis Brito que logró una orden de decomiso que no pudo ser ejecutada porque el circo konig escapó a Bolivia desde donde volvió tiempo despues pesquizado por la directora del Centro de Primates y el programa Contacto de canal 13 que siguió al circo grabando mas de 70 horas en forma oculta durante 9 meses, para lograr evidencia que fue presentada por el SAG en tribunales lográndose el decomiso por maltrato animal. Este decomiso fue ejecutado por la PDI quien lo entregó en custodia al Centro de Primates y Elba Muñoz que ya habia llevado al chimpancé Eusebio a Chimfunshi el año 2000, logró que la Familia Siddle acogiera a Toto por el resto de su vida en el mejor Santuario para chimpancés en el mundo: Chimfunshi.
Actualmente, Eusebio y Toto viven en una selva protegida en Chimfunshi, Zambia, Africa
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To date pictures of Toto. In september, 2011, he´ll turn 8 years of freedom in a protected jungle at the chimps´sanctuary Chimfunshi, in Zambia, Africa. This pictures were taken by Sylvia Jones and sent to the Primates Rescue Centre in August, 2011.
Toto was rescued from a circus on the 29th of January, 2003, during a joint mission between SAG and the Center of Rescue and Rehabilitation of Primates. The TV program “Contacto” accompanied videotaping, and after that, they made a chapter showing the real life that Toto had been living in a circus for several years. Contacto caused a huge impact and the chapter is still remembered as one with the highest ratings. The National Zoo had its medical-dentist team helping after the rescue, which helped fixing Toto´s teeth.
Toto spent the next 7 months at the Center of Primates, rehabilitating and receiving the economical help from ADI for its mainteinance. Right after that, he was shipped to Zambia, Africa, by DHL, Lan Chile and South African Airways.
Toto lived in circuses during 27 years. There, he was forced to work entertaining careless people that didn´t understant the mistreat he was going through. He was being forced to smoke, drink coffee, and being chained and locked in a tiny cage that is now kept at the Primates Rescue Centre, as a sample of the bad conditions that primates undergo in circuses.
Toto´s rescue was possible after 2 years of chilean animalists´ long hard work. Amongst them, we could highlight Jose Luis Brito, who was able to get the confiscation order that couldn´t come to term because the circus that had Toto (Konig), escaped to Bolivia. After thay came back to Chile, the director of the Primates Rescue Centre, Elba Muñoz, found them together with Contacto´s crew, whom secretly followed them during 9 months, videotaping more that 70 hours of horrible scenes of mistreat, that were later used as part of the evidence that SAG showed to the justice court that later ordered the final confiscation due to serious animal mistreat. That confiscation was performed by the PDI, whom gave Toto´s custody to the Primates Rescue Centre.
In the year 2000, the director of this centre, Elba Muñoz, had taken a chimp named Eusebio to Chimfunshi, so she asked the Siddle family, again, if they could have Toto for the rest of his life at their sanctuary. They said yes, so now, Toto and Eusebio, live together in a protected jungle at the best chips´sanctuary of the world: Chimfunshi.
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