Animal lovers and politicians are up in arms that the National Institute of Health is refusing to keep its paws off 28 lab chimps that are no longer being used for research — even though the law ...

The National Institutes of Health says it has no plans to move 26 former lab chimpanzees to a wooded sanctuary in Louisiana, even though a federal judge ruled in 2022 that the agency was violating ...

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In a story May 3 about chimpanzees, The Associated Press reported erroneously, based on information from the organization Project Chimps, that a university laboratory in Louisiana ...

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 ...

Major League Baseball has officially added the stats of Negro League players to its records. One of the players is Norman "Turkey" Stearnes. His granddaughter Vanessa Ivy Rose explains what it means ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Chimpanzees who have spent their lives in U.S. research labs being prodded, poked and tested may be headed for retirement in a leafy sanctuary where they can climb trees, socialize ...

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 ...

Lea Michele has spoken out against experiments currently being run on 14 chimpanzees at a laboratory in San Antonio, Texas. The Glee actress joined with the Physicians Committee for Responsible ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A decision to move 186 chimpanzees from a southern New Mexico facility to Texas is pitting government officials and scientists against a coalition of elected officials and animal ...

This browser does not support the Video element. Vanilla, the 28-year-old chimpanzee was finally introduced to an open sky for the first time in her life on June 27. Never being outside her entire ...

This week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a new rule that would extend "endangered species" protections to chimpanzees held in captivity. Nearly half of all the chimps in the U.S. live in ...