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Thursday, February 21, 2013

New digs: Federal Research Chimps Savor Retirement

KEITHVILLE, La. (AP) -- For the first time in their lives, four aging chimpanzees once used in federal research can go outside whenever they like. They can lie on the grass, clamber onto a platform 20 feet up on a chimp-style jungle gym and gaze freely at the open sky, the vista unbroken by steel bars.

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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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 21, 2013 at 4:38 PM

    Are those their cigarette butts there in the grass?

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 21, 2013 at 5:10 PM

    I've witness this in baltimore and it works.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 21, 2013 at 5:42 PM

    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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