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Touching moment chimp sees outdoors for the first time (www.bbc.com)

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Vanilla, a 28-year-old chimpanzee, had never been outside of a cage or enclosure. She is one of the surviving chimps from the New York-based Laboratory for Experimental Medicine & Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP). Vanilla and her sister, Shake, have a new island home at Save the Chimps in Fort Pierce, Florida.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So much more needs to be done for our fellow Earthlings.