This past March, the Human Society of the United States filed an accusation against one of the leading nonhuman primate research facilities in the country, claiming it had systematically bred ...

Chimpanzees constitute a national resource for biomedical research that can be perpetuated only by breeding animals already in the captive population. However, there are more chimpanzees than are now ...

Numerous people in the United States are closely watching the fate of more than 200 chimpanzees who have been "retired" from being used and severely abused in various research projects. The National ...

Colchester Zoo has welcomed the arrival of an endangered chimpanzee as part of a breeding programme. Jessie, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, has moved from Welsh Mountain Zoo to Colchester Zoo following a ...