Name: Where Chimpanzees Get to Retire
Uploaded: 2019-11-03T03:17:58.000Z
Duration: 2 min 29 s
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the director of the National Institutes of Health

made an announcement that virtually all of the chimpanzees

We have close to 200 chimpanzees here now.

Around half of our colony are veterans of research

those chimpanzees had to be infected with those viruses.

Genetically, I'd say we're about 98% identical

And, as you can imagine, that's why they were ideal subjects

in test studies because they wanna learn more

They're a lot like us and our family dynamics.

really close intimate relationships with; some not so much.

- We also have seen some behavioral changes

where a chimpanzee might appear to be overly timid

and, you know, see a change in that over time.

We might see that a chimpanzee is a lot more interested

in exploring the five-and-a-half-acre habitat,

and this might've been the first opportunity

- I think it's such a great benefit to know

that this is where they'll live out the rest of their lives

and to know that despite whatever their past may be,

we are at least giving them the opportunity

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Where Chimpanzees Get to Retire

opportunity

intimate

evolve

interact