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A Second Life for Retired Lab Chimps

Drive up a certain gravel road southwest of Shreveport, Louisiana and you will hear a primally powerful sound echoing through the trees: hoots and calls from a colony of chimpanzees, humanity’s closest living relative.

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Exotic Animals Released in Zanesville, Ohio

Sheriff’s deputies shot nearly 50 lions, tigers and other wild animals and say they’ve accounted for all but one monkey after the owner of a private farm released dozens of animals from their cages then shot and killed himself.

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Jessamine Primate Group Tells Cameron Crowe to Stop Using Monkeys in Films

Please, no more monkey business.

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Featured Building & Architecture Case Study: Center for Great Apes

With a winding maze of chutes and walkways woven throughout the treetops, the Center for Great Apes is a charitable organization created to provide sanctuary for chimpanzees and orangutans that have retired from the entertainment industry, completed research, or formerly served as pets.

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How ‘Chimpus Commercialus’ Went from Ad Star to Endangered Species

Pressure from animal-rights groups has agencies pledging not to use great apes for ad entertainment

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