API Primate Sanctuary
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The API Primate Sanctuary, on 186 acres outside Dilley, Texas (about 90 miles south of San Antonio), is home to more than 400 nonhuman primates, many of whom were rescued from abusive or exploitative situations.
The focus of animal care at the Sanctuary is to provide conditions in which the captive populations of snow monkeys, baboons, and vervets are allowed to live out the remainder of their lives with extensive freedom of movement, choice of food, and choice of companions, in accordance with their social nature. The sanctuary aims to provide a lifelong, high standard of care without being needlessly intrusive. The API Primate Sanctuary is unique in the quality of life that the majority of residents experience, living in free-ranging groups in natural enclosures of several acres.
In order to allow the residents the maximum amount of privacy and minimal human interference, the Sanctuary is not open to the public. The Sanctuary is accredited by TAOS (The Association of Sanctuaries).
The API Primate Sanctuary is a division of the Animal Protection Institute (API).
