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Video: Retired Lab Chimps Step Outside for the First Time [1]

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Submitted by Rain on Sun, 03/10/2013 - 08:20

Wired - 3/08/13, Nadia Drake

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In January, a new group of medical-research chimpanzees began arriving at a retirement home in Louisiana called Chimp Haven [2]. Before their arrival, the chimps had been housed at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Center, a primate research facility that had been in trouble for illegal chimp breeding [3] and Animal Welfare Act violations [4].

 

 

After a period of quarantine at Chimp Haven, the chimps are being released into their new habitat, and video footage has captured a few of those moments.

To read the rest of this story, visit Wired.com. [5]

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[1] //soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/video-retired-lab-chimps-step-outside-first-time
[2] http://www.chimphaven.org
[3] http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/chimpanzee-breeding/
[4] http://www.nature.com/news/us-primate-centre-faces-scrutiny-1.10317
[5] http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/03/lab-chimps-step-outside/
[6] //soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/type-post/3d-news