04 Jul 2014 | 15:18 BST | Posted by Davide Castelvecchi |
Posted on behalf of Katia Moskvitch.
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Julius, 46, is one of 110 research chimps who are
now permanently retired at a sanctuary in Louisiana.
Credit: Chimp Haven
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Tosha, Sassy, Paula, Julius and their 106 friends will now be munching peppers and bananas without worries of being used to test new drugs. The chimpanzees, formerly used for biomedical research by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) facility New Iberia Research Center (NIRC) in Louisiana, have now arrived at Chimp Haven, a federally funded sanctuary in Keithville, Louisiana.
“Our dreams have finally been realized for these amazing animals,” said Chimp Haven’s president Cathy Willis Spraetz in a statement.
The move comes two years after the NIH announced it would retire the NIRC’s 110 chimps, following an undercover video investigation by the Humane Society of the United States that exposed animal mistreatment at the facility (see ‘NIH retires research chimps at troubled facility‘).
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