![]() ![]() ![]() In 1995-after hundreds of chimpanzees were bred in laboratories in the 1980s and ’90s on the heels of the AIDS crisis-the National Institutes of Health (NIH) imposed a moratorium on the breeding of chimpanzees when it was discovered that they don’t get sick from HIV infection and don’t contract AIDS. laboratories were intentionally given diseases-such as HIV, hepatitis, cancer, respiratory viruses, malaria, and heart disease-even though advances in technology made these procedures irrelevant and decades of experimentation determined that chimpanzees’ bodies do not react in the same way to these diseases as humans’ do. They pull out their own hair, bite themselves, and pace incessantly. They suffer from symptoms such as social withdrawal, anxiety, and loss of appetite. Numerous studies have shown that even long after they’ve been retired from experimentation, many chimpanzees exhibit abnormal behavior indicative of depression and post-traumatic stress. As a result of enduring the terror and pain of having their bodies routinely violated for experiments and the loneliness of their tiny steel and concrete prison cells, many chimpanzees bear lifelong emotional scars. There were only cold, hard steel bars and concrete-and terror and loneliness that went on for so many years that most chimpanzees would sink into depression, eventually losing their minds. There were no families, no companions, no grooming, and no nests. In these prisons, chimpanzees were frequently caged alone and deprived of the freedom, autonomy, and meaningful social interaction essential to their well-being. ![]() laboratories, with as many as 80 percent of them simply warehoused because there was no longer a need to use them in experiments. At that time, there were more than 900 chimpanzees languishing in U.S. continued to conduct invasive experiments on chimpanzees. In 2010, the European Union passed a ban on great ape experimentation, but the U.S. The descendants of these chimpanzees were used in infectious disease experiments and high-velocity seat-belt tests. Air Force secured the capture of 65 young chimpanzees from Africa for use in military flight experiments at Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Undeterred by the carnage and suffering inherent in the chimpanzee trade, experimenters continued to fuel the practice. In 1923, the notorious American psychologist Robert Yerkes-who dreamed of creating the ideal chimpanzee “servant of science”-purchased a young bonobo and a chimpanzee he hoped to study into maturity. ![]() laboratories suffered terribly and died young. The mortality rate among these babies during capture and transport was high. Often, whole families were killed just to obtain a few babies. To capture baby chimpanzees, hunters would kill the mother chimpanzees and any other adult chimpanzees who tried to defend the babies. began purchasing baby chimpanzees who had been kidnapped from the forests of Central and West Africa. Sadly, in the early 1920s, experimenters in the U.S. They laugh when they’re enjoying themselves and grimace when they’re afraid. They grieve when their loved ones pass away. They help others, even at a personal cost to themselves. They empathize with one another and console their friends when they’re upset. They have excellent memories and share cultural traditions with their children and peers. Chimpanzee mothers are loving and protective, nursing their infants and sharing their nests with them for four to six years. They care deeply for their families and forge lifelong friendships. Profoundly social beings, they spend every day together exploring, crafting and using tools to solve problems, foraging, playing, grooming each other, and making soft nests for sleeping each night. In their natural homes in the wild, chimpanzees-humans’ closest living genetic relatives, who are more like us than they’re like gorillas-are never separated from their families and troops. ![]()
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