Chimp Haven Welcomes New Retirees

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🗓️ 4 February 2022

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In 2015, the National Institutes of Health ended invasive biomedical research on its hundreds of chimps. Since then, it's been gradually moving the animals to a sanctuary in Louisiana called Chimp Haven. NPR science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce joins the show to talk about the NIH's effort to retire research chimps and why it's complicated.

Read more of Nell's reporting about chimp retirement:
https://n.pr/3HsgmLq, https://n.pr/3AW3smo and https://n.pr/3sbHyaV

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:09.9	If you go to Northern Louisiana, you might hear some unusual sounds echoing over the pine
0:15.2	forests.
0:19.4	This is Chim Pavan, the largest chimpanzee sanctuary in the world.
0:24.0	I'm Lauren Summer, science correspondent with NPR, and while I have not been to Chim Pavan,
0:29.0	NL Greenfield Boys has.
0:31.0	Hey now.
0:33.0	Okay, so tell me about Chim Pavan.
0:34.9	How many chimps are living there?
0:37.3	They have 330 chimps.
0:39.9	Wow, okay.
0:40.9	And how did all these chimps end up in Louisiana?
0:43.4	Where are they from?
0:44.9	Mostly research institutions.
0:46.5	So Chim Pavan is the official sanctuary for former research chimps, owned or supported
0:51.9	by the National Institutes of Health.
0:54.5	And a couple of NIH chimps arrived recently that are actually really special.
0:58.3	Their names are Pancake, a female, and Huey, a male, they're both in their 30s.
1:03.3	Hi Huey.
1:04.3	Hi.
1:05.3	Oh, hi Huey.
1:06.3	Hi.
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