Although chimp research is coming to a slow end, hundreds are still in labs. A tiny Washington sanctuary is helping them.

SANDI DOUGHTON: ‘Experiments on mankind’s closest relative effectively ended three years ago and, for the first time, more chimpanzees live in sanctuaries than laboratories. The National Institutes of Health will retire all but the frailest of its 257 remaining chimps to a federally funded sanctuary in Louisiana within the next several years. But another 200 … Continue reading Although chimp research is coming to a slow end, hundreds are still in labs. A tiny Washington sanctuary is helping them.