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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Vanilla, a 28-year-old chimpanzee, had never been outside of a cage or enclosure."

This is heart-breaking and inhumane.

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

Yeah this is hard to read, we need to be better to animals.