New digs: Federal research chimps savor retirement
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 05:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
For the first time in their lives, four aging chimpanzees once used in federal research can go outside whenever they like. They can lie on the grass, clamber onto a platform 20 feet up on a chimp-style jungle gym and gaze freely at the open sky, the vista unbroken by steel bars.