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

Wired - 3/08/13, Nadia Drake

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.

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