In 2011, the world got to witness a heartwarming moment. Three chimpanzees—middle-aged but newly liberated—felt the grass under their feet for the very first time. After enduring 30 years in a ...

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 ...

Tonka, a famous chimpanzee that PETA and actor Alan Cumming spent nearly a year searching for in a bizarre animal-rights legal battle, has been at the Save the Chimps sanctuary in western St. Lucie ...

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 ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Donovan the chimp transformed from a friendly ape who "adapts well to peers" to one who beat his female cage-mate so aggressively they had to be separated. Lira ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS-- Chimpanzees that 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 at ...

The last chimpanzees at the former research laboratory at Holloman Air Force Base have finally been relocated to Chimp Haven, a federally funded sanctuary in Louisiana. Although biomedical research on ...