In June of 2021, NBC 7's Dagmar Midcap chronicled the relocation of six chimpanzees dubbed “The Lucky 6.” The chimpanzees were moved from Wildlife Waystation in Los Angeles to Chimpanzee Sanctuary ...

Vanilla, the 28-year-old chimpanzee was finally introduced to an open sky for the first time in her life on June 27. Never being outside her entire life and stuck in a small lab cage the size of a ...

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 ...

The U.S. National Institute of Health has announced that it will no longer carry out research using a colony of chimpanzees. All its chimps will now be released from labs and sent to live at a shelter ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas stayed behind with the chimps. Taylor's soldiers, he said, stole the lab's cars. Conflict surged into the 2000s as militants fought for control of Liberia, and public pressure to end testing on ...

NEW ORLEANS — Chimpanzees who have spent their lives in U.S. research labs being prodded, poked and tested may be headed for retirement in a leafy sanctuary where they can climb trees, socialize at ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - 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 ...