What is life like for chimpanzees in the laboratory?
The Humane Society of the United States recently conducted an undercover investigation into the world’s largest chimpanzee laboratory (New Iberia Research Center in Louisiana). Our investigator revealed individual housing of chimpanzees, resulting in chimps suffering from depression, heightened aggression, frustration and even self-mutilation. Chimpanzees used in research, including those at New Iberia Research Center, are also often subjected to many painful and distressing procedures including numerous liver biopsies, isolation from others for long spans of time, injection of human viruses, and frequent “knockdowns” in which chimpanzees are shot with a dart gun of anesthetic. In the wild, chimpanzees live in very diverse social groups and travel several miles in one day. However, in some research protocols, chimpanzees are forced to live alone in cold, metal cages approximately the size of a small closet.
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