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By Studying Skinny Apes, Science Figured Out Why Humans Are So Fat
It involves our evolutionary ancestors learning to sweat and having weak arms.
These Chimps Helped Us Find a Hepatitis Vaccine. Now They've Been Left to Die
In March, the New York Blood Center pulled the funding for the chimp sanctuary where 66 of its retired research chimps live.
Chimps Held in Captivity on College Campus Compared to Slaves in US Court
The case of Hercules and Leo, two chimpanzees in the custody of a New York university, could address major concerns regarding the rights of animals.
(UPDATED) Two Chimps Just Had Their Personhood Recognized by a New York Judge
Two research chimps at Stony Brook University were just granted a writ of habeas corpus. Here's what that means for chimp personhood.
Chimpanzees Don’t Have Human Rights, According to Court
Last week a Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court declared that chimpanzees are not people, legally speaking. This does not bode well for the wider and active great ape rights movement.
The Lab Apes of Liberia
Monkey Island is an area inhabited solely by former lab-tested chimpanzees who survived disease and two civil wars.
The Government Is Retiring Hundreds of Chimps from Biomedical Research
I hate to paint with a broad brush here, but primates in America have horrible lives. Sure, there are your One Percenters like Koko and Bubbles the Chimp, but by and large, the US is one big Bergen-Belsen for our oldest living ancestors. The NIH has...
Chimpanzees Enjoy Solving Puzzles Just as Much as Humans
If chimps could read, they'd probably enjoy crosswords.
No More Chimps: The NIH Needs to Find New Test Subjects
The age-old use of chimps as the proverbial guinea pigs in testing out new pharmaceuticals has been dealt a major blow.