As I draft this in 2023, I am again in Alamogordo's sphere, over on the other
side of the Organ Mountains, which I have the deep pleasure of seeing
every day.
In 2015, I was able to visit Chimp Haven in Louisiana. It's open to the public only twice a year.
Alas, as of January 2021 ("Federal lawsuit filed over chimps still held at Holloman Air Force Base"), 36 chimps from the Holloman Air Force Base community still lived at the Holloman Air Force Base because, according to official explanations, the remaining chimps are too infirm for travel to one of the sanctuaries in Louisiana or Florida. The situation had not changed in March 2022, although the number of chimps at the air force base had decreased to 35, due to the death of one inhabitant.
The original post of UPDATE: Chimps in Alamogordo, New Mexico, is here.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
UPDATE: Chimps in Alamogordo, New Mexico
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| Credit: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine |
History
Back here, I related the history of chimpanzees in Alamogordo.
A new life for the Alamogordo chimps!
Today brings important news for the 169 remaining chimps at the Alamogordo Primate Facility on Holloman Air Force Base.
In short --> some? most? all? -- of these chimps will be retired to Chimp Haven in Louisiana.
Here is the final report from the Working Group on the Use of Chimpanzees in NIH-Supported Research.
There is a comment period before their recommendations can be
finalized, but it would seem public opinion is in favor of retiring the
chimps.
What a happy ending to a dismal history. Kudos to Chimp Haven.
But what about ....?
While I was researching the history of the Alamogordo chimps, I was
dismayed to learn that Americans can breed and sell chimps as pets.
Insanity.
Setting aside the horror stories of the dangers of adolescent and adult
chimps, how does one rationalize taking a baby chimp from its mother?
A baby chimp that has been taken from its mother suffers effects similar
to that of a human infant being stolen from its mother.
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