ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The National Institutes of Health decided to relocate nearly two dozen retired research chimpanzees ...

The animals have not been used as test subjects since 2015, when the NIH retired chimpanzees from invasive research.

For years, chimpanzee experts and some American lawmakers have urged the agency to relocate the chimps, which reside at the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico. In 2021, several animal ...

Retired research chimps from New Mexico are moving to Chimp Haven, the world's largest chimpanzee sanctuary, in Louisiana. The National Institutes of Health confirmed to the Associated Press on ...

"There are many details to be determined in the weeks to come, but for now, we celebrate this wonderful news for the APF chimps," Smith said.New Mexico was once home to a large colony of captive ...

NIH representatives confirmed in an email that the transfer of the 23 chimps from the Alamogordo Primate Facility at Holloman Air Force Base in southern New Mexico will happen in the coming months.