September 15, 2011
Talk Back: Working to Protect Chimpanzees and Exotic Animals
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Flo is an elderly chimpanzee who was used in experiments for decades. She lives in a facility in New Mexico where she could be used in experiments in the future. Alamogordo Primate Facility
Last week, I saw a moving video of a group of chimpanzees venturing out into the sunlight at an Austrian sanctuary for the first time after many years of confinement and suffering in invasive biomedical research where the Daily Mail reported many of them had been intentionally infected with HIV.
The narration is in German, but the footage of the animals stepping outside says it all.
