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    Report: Most Former Research Chimps Should Move To Retirement Sanctuaries

    A working group convened by the National Institutes of Health looked at where chimps that had been used in research should live now. Unless relocating chimps would endanger them, a sanctuary is best.
    by Nell Greenfieldboyce May 18, 2018 2 minutes

    Former research chimps owned by the National Institutes of Health should be moved from laboratories to retirement sanctuaries unless that relocation is "extremely likely" to shorten their lives, a report issued Friday says.

    "Chimpanzees should be relocated to the federal sanctuary system unless relocation would place the chimpanzee's life, safety, and from a working group convened by the NIH to examine the safety of transferring chimps to retirement homes.

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