FOX News: New digs for chimps: Move afoot to begin retiring hundreds of federal research primates

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New digs for chimps: Move afoot to begin retiring hundreds of federal research primates Feb 20th 2013, 10:10 Published February 20, 2013 Associated Press An adult chimp plays with a young chimp at Chimp Haven in Keithville, La., Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. One hundred and eleven chimpanzees will be coming from a south Louisiana laboratory to Chimp Haven, the national sanctuary for chimpanzees retired from federal research. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)The Associated Press Two chimps tussle for food at Chimp Haven in Keithville, La., Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. One hundred and eleven chimpanzees will be coming from a south Louisiana laboratory to Chimp Haven, the national sanctuary for chimpanzees retired from federal research. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)The Associated Press A mother chimp relaxes with her baby at Chimp Haven in Keithville, La., Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. One hundred and eleven chimpanzees will be coming from a south Louisiana laboratory to Chimp Haven, the national sanctuary for chimpanzees retired from federal research. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)The Associated Press Two chimps walk together at Chimp Haven in Keithville, La., Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. One hundred and eleven chimpanzees will be coming from a south Louisiana laboratory to Chimp Haven, the national sanctuary for chimpanzees retired from federal research. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)The Associated Press A chimp climbs a pine tree at Chimp Haven in Keithville, La., Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. One hundred and eleven chimpanzees will be coming from a south Louisiana laboratory to Chimp Haven, the national sanctuary for chimpanzees retired from federal research. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)The Associated Press Next Slide Previous Slide KEITHVILLE, La. –  For the first time in their lives, four aging chimpanzees can go outside any time they want. They can walk on grass, clamber onto the platforms of a chimp-style jungle gym 20 feet high and see sky unbroken by steel bars. Their social circle has doubled. They're among the first of 111 chimpanzees coming from a south Louisiana laboratory to Chimp Haven, the national sanctuary for chimpanzees retired from federal research. The National Institutes of Health has recommended retiring another 300 of the chimps and sending them to the "national sanctuary system" — a system of one. But there's a major money hurdle. When Chimp Haven was made the national sanctuary, Congress capped all spending on the project at $30 million. That cap will be hit this year.

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