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catbyte

(34,413 posts)
Fri Aug 16, 2019, 04:57 PM Aug 2019

Chimps Go Outdoors for the First Time!

On Jan. 16, 2018, former research chimpanzees who had spent their entire lives in inside/outside cages explored an outdoor forest habitat for the first time in our new Peachtree Habitat! One group of six males and one group of nine females, all formerly used in biomedical research in laboratories, were released at separate times to freely explore a six-acre, forested habitat in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Georgia. Thanks to founding board member Marsha Perelman, American Anti-Vivisection Society, Solid Security Perimeter Solutions, and National Anti-Vivisection Society for making it possible! Donate to support more chimps going outdoors: https://projectchimps.org/support-us/...

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Chimps Go Outdoors for the First Time! (Original Post) catbyte Aug 2019 OP
How Wonderful! montanacowboy Aug 2019 #1
When you see their reaction and joy, you have to wonder how humans can be so cruel to animals. Fla Dem Aug 2019 #2

montanacowboy

(6,094 posts)
1. How Wonderful!
Fri Aug 16, 2019, 05:13 PM
Aug 2019

So glad to see these chimps able to have some quality of life. My heart breaks for all those that remain in laboratories.

Fla Dem

(23,710 posts)
2. When you see their reaction and joy, you have to wonder how humans can be so cruel to animals.
Sat Aug 17, 2019, 10:09 AM
Aug 2019

But then again, there are humans who are cruel to humans; children and adults. Just think of all the children and adults being held in horrible conditions in ICE concentration camps. We are an imperfect species.

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