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    If you need a smile: Lab Chimps See The Sun For First Time

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    Lab chimps see daylight for first time in 30 years


    Freedom ... ex-lab chimps see the sunlight after being locked up for most of their lives

    By ELLIE ROSS
    Published: 06 Sep 2011

    THIS is the moment a group of chimpanzees sees daylight for the first time in 30 years — after being locked in cages for medical testing.
    The animals hugged each other in delight before they took their first steps outside.

    Emotional footage, below, shows how they reacted to their new surroundings.

    The outing marked the end of a 14-year bid to re-integrate the 38 primates after they spent most of their lives cooped up inside.

    One commentator said: "They hugged as if saying, 'We're finally free'. And then they laughed."

    Video at the page link worth watching http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-30-years.html

    The chimpanzees were taken from their mothers shortly after their births and brought to a research facility in Austria.

    The chimps were moved to a farm where keepers tried to reintroduce them to life outside — but the process was not easy.

    The animals had spent so much time inside they were confused when shown patches of grass — and repeatedly threw them away.



    Elated ... two chimps hug in excitement before stepping out together

    But finally their moment of freedom came. And their keeper Renate Foidl said: “The chimps are incredibly happy. This is amazing, I have been waiting for this moment for so long.”

    The use of chimps for scientific research has been controversial.

    Earlier this year, a hot debate was sparked in New Mexico when animal rights activists demanded the release of 180 working chimps to a sanctuary.



    A well-earned retirement ... the chimps leave their enclosure for the first time in 30 years


    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-30-years.html
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    this one brought tears to my eyes; but they were good tears
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    ya know .... is it really worth it .... is this what its all about

    Doing freaky tests on Animals (PRIMATES) that were outlawed at the Nuremberg trials so that Big Pharma could do testing on Animals to make Billions to enslave humanity

    Somehow I have to explain this to my grand children how we let things get out of hand
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    Lab Chimps Play in the Sun for the First Time


    Sep 5, 2011

    These monkeys were caged/kept indoors their entire lives and have finally been allowed outside to play.

    Narration translation:

    Woman Narrator:
    They see for the first time in their lives, the sun. After decades in an experiment laboratory, this is the first step of the chimpanzees in to freedom.

    Man Narrator:
    They hugged each other, like they would say they were finally free. And then they laughed. One imagines being locked up for 30 years in an elevator, then to open the door with friends and say "I don't believe it." They have only seen people wearing protective clothing; they have never had regular contact. They never learned to climb, because they were brought to the laboratory as babies. Now they can finally get out.

    Woman Narrator:
    Most of the former 38 monkeys have spent the entire lives behind bars. Since 2002, they are now in an Austrian village, slowing being prepared a life in freedom. This moment was for both animal and people equally unique.

    Man Narrator:
    I saw a chimpanzee, who was starring completely fascinated at a butterfly. He knew it, from back when he was a small chimpanzee in the jungle, and now he can see them again.

    Woman Narrator:
    And the monkeys that were born in the laboratory are discovering everything for the first time. The air, the grass, the freedom.
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    Lab chimps see daylight for first time in 30 years, chimps hug in excitement before stepping out together
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    AWWWWWW Loved it when they hugged and started laughing! Just precious and heartwarming. Gonna send this to my mom. She will love it too!

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    Free at last! Chimps caged for 30 years and injected with HIV in cruel experiments finally feel the sun on their faces again

    By Allan Hall
    Last updated at 10:11 AM on 8th September 2011
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    Like prisoners emerging from a lifetime behind bars, a group of chimpanzees step blinking into the sunlight with what appears for all the world to be a wave and a smile.

    And they have much to be joyful about. For this is the first time they have felt grass under their feet and breathed fresh air for 30 years.
    Though a few of the chimps were born in captivity, most were kidnapped from African jungles as babies and flown to Europe, where they were locked in metal laboratory cages to be used in a long series of experiments.


    Hello world: With a wave and what appears to be a smile, chimpanzees step into the daylight for the first time in 30 years at the Gut Aiderbichl Animal Sanctuary, near Salzburg, Austria


    What do you think? Clyde the chimpanzee takes a brave peek at the great outdoors, and right, three chimps jostle for a glimpse of their new world. A total of 38 chimps have been released into the £3m sanctuary


    Sweet dreams: Susi, a 37-year-old chimp, sunbathes in freedom for the first time. Susi has not been outside for 35 years

    Horrifyingly, their mothers - who would usually raise them for six years - were all slaughtered.

    The aim of the firm that bought them was to find a vaccine to combat Aids. Because chimps share 99per cent of the gene code of man, they seemed natural subjects for study.


    Behind bars: One of the chimps in the cages that were home to them for many years

    But that meant they suffered terrible cruelties in the years that followed, including being injected with the HIV virus.

    Hooked up to machines and pumped full of chemicals, they were truly prisoners of utter despair. With no stimulation, no nurturing love and no hope, many were driven to the brink of madness and sometimes beyond.

    But their ordeal finally ended on Tuesday when the 38 surviving chimps were released into a £3million sanctuary in Austria, allowing them to feel the nurturing contact of their fellow chimps after years of being separated by bars and bullet-proof glass.

    Now, Susi, David, Clyde, Lingoa, Moritz and all the others will be free to enjoy the remainder of their lives together, thanks to the unstinting efforts of a 59-year-old conservationist named Michael Aufhauser.
    The founder of an animal charity that operates in four European countries, he oversaw the construction of the sanctuary outside Vienna, which is built on the site of a defunct safari park.

    ‘Who knows what scars they carry on the inside,’ says Mr Aufhauser.


    Overjoyed: The apes embrace before venturing out onto the grass together


    Free at last! A chimp appears to grin widely as he explores grassy terrain after decades in captivity


    Is it safe? A chimpanzee tentatively waits inside after a door is opened to his freedom

    ‘They are all traumatised to greater or lesser degrees. Two of them died before the reserve was finished, but at least those that are left will have a quality of life that was unthinkable when they were prisoners of the lab.
    ‘Some chimpanzees were infected with the HIV virus. Of course, they became HIV positive. But none of them, not here in Austria or anywhere else in the world, developed full-blown Aids. Therefore, the programme was useless. It achieved absolutely nothing.’

    Several years ago, the giant American pharmaceutical company Baxter took over the Austrian laboratory, and immediately announced it had no intention of continuing the testing programme.

    More than that, its bosses decided the firm had a moral responsibility to improve the life of the chimps, who can live to the age of 50 or 60.
    They were moved to an indoor shelter in a safari park, but when it went into liquidation in 2004 the building of an outdoor sanctuary was stopped and the animals were forced to spend several more years in cages.
    But no longer. ‘At last,’ says Mr Aufhauser. ‘They will have some dignity and some fun for what remains of their lives.’

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    Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCuxabHG ... r_embedded

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... d-HIV.html
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    I can fight Evil Mercellously and put the fear of God into my foe

    But ... I cant handle stuff like this

    this stuff will wreck me everytime
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    Bless their hearts. They deserve sun, fun, lots of toys and bananas for the rest of their lives!

    Love the pics. They look so happy now.

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