{"id":57028,"date":"2024-05-23T10:29:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T10:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/23\/fate-of-retired-research-chimps-still-in-limbo\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T10:29:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T10:29:11","slug":"fate-of-retired-research-chimps-still-in-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/23\/fate-of-retired-research-chimps-still-in-limbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Fate of Retired Research Chimps Still in Limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It has been more than two decades since chimpanzee research<\/a> came to a halt at the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico. And yet, some two dozen chimps still live there, despite a federal law that requires such retired research chimps to be moved to sanctuary.<\/p>\n

In 2022, a judge ruled that the National Institutes of Health, which owns the chimps, was violating the law by refusing to move the animals to a wooded sanctuary in Louisiana. Earlier this year, the agency dropped its appeal of the ruling.<\/p>\n

But the N.I.H. says it has no immediate plans to move the animals, citing concerns about the animals\u2019 health \u2014 and a legal footnote that may exempt the agency from moving chimps that are \u201cmoribund,\u201d a term that typically means near death.<\/p>\n

As of last October, 28 chimps remained<\/a> at Alamogordo, all of whom were moribund, the N.I.H. said in an email. It defined moribund as suffering from \u201clife-threatening, systemic disease that poses a constant threat and could result in abrupt death.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n