Fifty-two-year-olds Julius and Sandy, 46-year-old Phyllis and 44-year-old Jessica have arrived. These and several other primates are now "living like chimpanzees" as they play, groom each other and tussle at Chimp Haven in northwest Louisiana -- the only national sanctuary for retired federal research chimps.
Julius' group is among 111 chimpanzees coming to Chimp Haven over the next 18 months from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's New Iberia Research Center. They could be the vanguard of a much larger immigration of former research chimps on the way to the refuge in Keithville, La.
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Are those their cigarette butts there in the grass?
I've witness this in baltimore and it works.
They should never be allowed to keep them for research but a few years---it is horrible the life they are forced to live. I'm certain other animals are plentiful for research & know it's a necessity for research BUT the length of time they've had to endure pain is horrible!!!!!
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