As an animal lover, I have a real hard time when I read about any animals being used for testing. Evidently there were over a 100 chimps that were in a lab in New Mexico and ten of them have been relocated to Fort Pierce thanks to Save the Chimps sanctuary. These poor chimps have never felt grass under their precious feet. They were kept in small barren concrete cages. Now, they will be roaming 12 articial islands with hills, trees, hammocks and pay gyms.
Save the Chimps took over the lab in New Mexico in 2002 when the lab went bankrupt (that was a great thing for the chimps).
It costs $25000 to relocate one chimp so that is why there are still about 100. Why it costs so much they haven't told us. Most of the chimps seem to be adjusting to their new surroundings.
I know in these hard economic times chimps may not be the first thing we try to save, but my heart goes out to them and I would like to see them live a happy life!
The chimps relocated to Florida - now how about you?
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