Animal lovers and politicians are up in arms that the National Institute of Health is refusing to keep its paws off 28 lab chimps that are no longer being used for research — even though the law ...

The National Institutes of Health says it has no plans to move 26 former lab chimpanzees to a wooded sanctuary in Louisiana, even though a federal judge ruled in 2022 that the agency was violating ...

Chimps have to be sedated and immobilized for even simple procedures like drawing blood, and the NBC cameras showed chimps willingly presenting their arms to veterinarians who injected them with ...

Retired lab chimpanzees housed in a New Mexico facility are headed for greener pastures in an animal sanctuary in Louisiana next spring, the National Institutes of Health said. The primates are being ...

A Treasure Coast chimpanzee sanctuary is mourning the loss of one of its oldest and most beloved chimps. The Save the Chimps sanctuary announced the passing of Cheetah on Tuesday. The cherished ...

HUFFINGTONPOST.COM - If this doesn't make your eyes mist up a little, there might be something wrong with you. RTL, a German television station, provided this tearjerking footage of lab chimps taking ...

Three years ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would no longer support experimentation on chimpanzees. The NIH stated that all of the chimps that it “owns” or supports ...

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In a story May 3 about chimpanzees, The Associated Press reported erroneously, based on information from the organization Project Chimps, that a university laboratory in Louisiana ...

After nearly three decades cooped up inside a New York laboratory, a heartwarming video posted on social media showed the moment a chimpanzee was stunned when she gazed for the first time at the open ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A decision to move 186 chimpanzees from a southern New Mexico facility to Texas is pitting government officials and scientists against a coalition of elected officials and animal ...