Federal chimps savor retirement

[TheResearcher]

http://news.yahoo.com/digs-federal-r...101706948.html

"For the first time in their lives, four aging chimpanzees once used in federal research can go outside whenever they like. They can lie on the grass, clamber onto a platform 20 feet up on a chimp-style jungle gym and gaze freely at the open sky, the vista unbroken by steel bars.

Fifty-two-year-olds Julius and Sandy, 46-year-old Phyllis and 44-year-old Jessica have arrived. These and several other primates are now "living like chimpanzees" as they play, groom each other and tussle at Chimp Haven in northwest Louisiana — the only national sanctuary for retired federal research chimps."

[pickles]

I guess this is supposed to anger people that's those do-nothing chimps, no doubt part of the useless 47%, are living high on the hog on tax payers' money?

[ms maggie]

Good for them. HIV testing? Yeah, think they've earned a cushy retirement.

[jessup270]

Even in first class facilities it is sad to watch chimps and great apes in captivity.

The eyes and faces of these creatures seemed tortured by their confinement.

The worst part is that there are almost no places left in the world for these animals to roam freely.