'World's Loneliest Chimp,' Abandoned On A Small Island, Gets Cuddly Teddy Bear

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));Posted by SOS PONSO on Thursday, February 25, 2016 The "world's loneliest chimp" just got a warm and fuzzy gift. Ponso was one of 20 chimps that were dumped on a tiny island off the Ivory Coast by the New York Blood Center, a medical testing company, in the early 1980s, the Humane Society of the United States told The Huffington Post. According to SOS PONSO -- a Facebook page which advocates for the chimp -- Ponso is the sole survivor.  The rest of the 19 monkeys died of starvation and disease, once the blood center stopped funding their aid. Since then, Ponso's only friend has been a local farmer named Germain, who has fed him and buried the chimp’s last living relative -- his son -- in 2013.  After three years of solitude, Germain and his friend Mohamed recently brought Ponso a special gift along with their usual delivery of bread and bananas -- a cuddly teddy bear: (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));SOSPONSO-Visi...
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