Retired lab chimpanzees housed in a New Mexico facility are headed for greener pastures in an animal sanctuary in Louisiana next spring, the National Institutes of Health said. The primates are being ...

Chimps have to be sedated and immobilized for even simple procedures like drawing blood, and the NBC cameras showed chimps willingly presenting their arms to veterinarians who injected them with ...

MORGANTON, Ga. — A former research lab chimpanzee has died at an animal sanctuary in north Georgia at age 36. Project Chimps, a nonprofit sanctuary for chimpanzees formerly used in research labs, ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In a story May 3 about chimpanzees, The Associated Press reported erroneously, based on information from the organization Project Chimps, that a university laboratory in Louisiana ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Chimpanzees who 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 ...

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 ...

After nearly three decades cooped up inside a New York laboratory, a heartwarming video posted on social media showed the moment a chimpanzee was stunned when she gazed for the first time at the open ...

This browser does not support the Video element. Vanilla, the 28-year-old chimpanzee was finally introduced to an open sky for the first time in her life on June 27. Never being outside her entire ...

During a lab visit in 1990, Jane Goodall disregarded the caution of some workers there to get close to an alpha chimpanzee and communicate with it Goodall's groundbreaking years observing chimps ...

Footage from Save The Chimps, a chimpanzee sanctuary in Florida, shows Andres running in from the rain to keep his snacks dry ...