Touching moment chimp sees outdoors for the first time

World News@beehaw.org – 12 points – 1 years ago

Touching moment chimp sees outdoors for first time

Vanilla, a 28-year-old chimpanzee, had never been outside of a cage or enclosure. She is one of the surviving chimps from the New York-based Laboratory for Experimental Medicine & Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP). Vanilla and her sister, Shake, have a new island home at Save the Chimps in Fort Pierce, Florida.

[Video report, 44 seconds]

"Vanilla, a 28-year-old chimpanzee, had never been outside of a cage or enclosure."

This is heart-breaking and inhumane.

Yeah this is hard to read, we need to be better to animals.

So much more needs to be done for our fellow Earthlings.

do we have a c/orphancrushingachine here?

We can't be locking these creatures up, man. In zoos or elsewhere. That creature has feelings, thoughts, sapience. Look at her face when she goes outside and tell me you didn't know exactly what she was feeling, that you didn't empathize with her.

Zoos are often a lot more enlightened these days and many do some valuable species conservation work but I know what you mean.

And yes, I can't recall seeing a display of happiness like that other than a waggy dog when they see their owner.