by Primate Rescue Center | Feb 16, 2010 | Donald, Hazel, Rescue Stories Chimps, The Chimps, Victoria, Zulu
We first learned about the five chimpanzees living in the hills of northwest Georgia in the summer of 1997. Kevin Ivester, a former board member of the Simian Society of America, explained that little was known about the animals because the owner kept to herself. She...
by Primate Rescue Center | Feb 16, 2010 | Cory, Ike, Jenny, Martina, Noelle, Pozna, Rescue Stories Chimps, Rodney, The Chimps
In 1996, New York University made the decision to close down the Laboratory for Experimental Medicine & Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP), which at the time housed nearly 200 chimpanzees and an even larger number of monkeys. All the animals needed to be relocated, and...
