U.S. proposes new protections for captive chimps
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 - 02:30
in Biology & Nature
Chimpanzees would be reclassified as endangered, making it harder to use them in medical research.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday proposed extending tough new protections for chimpanzees in captivity, a shift that would place strict limits on primates' role as human surrogates in biomedical research.