FORT PIERCE – Limbani, an internet-famous chimpanzee with over a million Instagram followers, has found a new home in Fort Pierce after spending his life alone in an enclosure at Miami’s Zoological Wildlife Foundation since he was a baby.
Eight-year-old Limbani is now with other chimpanzees at Save the Chimps after his move last week. He is the youngest of the more than 220 chimps on the 150-acre private site.
Limbani, which means “be strong” in the Chewa language of southern Africa, was at the private Miami zoo after being born on Aug. 24, 2016, with pneumonia and rejected by his mother, according to ZWF. Tania and Jorge Sanchez became his caretakers during the first few months of his life before he was sent to the zoo’s owners. In 2023, he was reunited with them after six years…