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Report: Most Former Research Chimps Should Move To Retirement Sanctuaries

A working group convened by the National Institutes of Health looked at where chimps that had been used in research should live now. Unless relocating chimps would endanger them, a sanctuary is best.

Former research chimps owned by the National Institutes of Health should be moved from laboratories to retirement sanctuaries unless that relocation is "extremely likely" to shorten their lives, a report issued Friday says.

"Chimpanzees should be relocated to the federal sanctuary system unless relocation would place the chimpanzee's life, safety, and from a working group convened by the NIH to examine the safety of transferring chimps to retirement homes.

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