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 ...

Haven is a place on Earth. Chimp Haven, that is — the retirement home for New Mexico chimpanzees used for biomedical experiments at Holloman Air Force Base’s Alamogordo Primate Facility. Earlier this ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. sanctuary for retired federal research chimpanzees is about to nearly double its population when it receives 113 new primates from a Louisiana lab that no longer has a ...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has purchased stock of a Maryland-based private research facility BIOQUAL, which conducts tests on great apes. The animal rights organization plans ...

Raised in a biomedical research lab in New York, a chimpanzee named Vanilla spent her early life looking through the bars of a tiny birdcage. Vanilla tasted freedom in 1995, when she and 30 other ...

MORGANTON, Ga. — A former research lab chimpanzee has died at an animal sanctuary in north Georgia at age 36. Project Chimps, a nonprofit sanctuary for chimpanzees formerly used in research labs, ...

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 ...

Chimpanzee sees the sky for the first time after freedom from caged lab Vanilla, a 28-year-old chimpanzee, was once caged in a lab facility in New York. After being freed, she sees the sky for the ...