Touching video shows chimp seeing sky for first time after being caged for entire life
dailyrecord.co.ukThis is the heartwarming moment when a chimpanzee survivor of a grisly laboratory experiment programme saw the sky in her new home for the first time.
Vanilla the chimp looked delighted as she arrived at the sanctuary in Fort Pierce, Florida.As reported by the Mirror, the 29-year-old chimp was once a victim of the Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP) in New York.
Before it closed down in 1996, LEMSIP once housed around 300 chips and another 300 monkeys.According to advocates for the animal Project R&R, chimps like Vanilla were denied outdoor access and kept in small cages.
Vanilla lived there until she was two before she was taken to a much larger enclosure, the Wildlife Waystation in California.Her Save the Chimps profile reads: "I spent my early years in a biomedical research laboratory in New York where chimpanzees were commonly housed in 5’x5’x7’ cages suspended from the ground like bird cages.
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