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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

After nearly three decades cooped up inside a New York laboratory, a heartwarming video posted on social media showed the moment a chimpanzee was stunned when she gazed for the first time at the open ...

The National Institutes of Health, which owns the chimps at the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico, has no plans to move the animals to sanctuary, despite a ruling from a federal judge. By ...

ATLANTA, Ga. - A chimpanzee who spent most of her life in research labs has died at a Georgia sanctuary after a long battle with kidney disease. Jamie died at 36 at Project Chimps, a sanctuary for ...