Primarily Primates staff, volunteers make heroic efforts to protect animals from historic Texas freeze
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SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Primarily Primates, a non-profit sanctuary in Bexar County, Texas that provides lifetime care for hundreds of animals mostly primates, including 32 chimpanzees is among the
four million without power in Texas after a rare deep freeze forced the state s electric grid operator to impose rotating blackouts because of higher power demand. The sanctuary has been without power since Monday morning.
While staff and volunteers work tirelessly around the clock to evacuate dozens of animals from the 78-acre sanctuary and use heaters and generators to keep the remaining animals safe they are also mourning the loss of approximately 12 animals, including monkeys, lemurs and one chimpanzee.
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