Sentences with phrase «project chimps»
► «Louisiana's New Iberia Research Center (NIRC) announced [Tuesday] that it will move all 220 of its chimps to [Project Chimps] in Blue Ridge, Georgia,» David Grimm reported Wednesday afternoon.
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Hercules and Leo arrived this morning at Project Chimps, a 95 - hectare sanctuary in the wooded hills of Morgantown, Georgia.
Their arrival at Project Chimps suggests plans to retire these animals — which can live up to 50 years in captivity — may be back on track.
Two of the youngest chimps, Jacob and Oscar, both 7 years old, entered fairly quickly, says Leslie Wade, Project Chimps's manager of communications.
At 9 a.m., the animals arrived at Project Chimps, where they made their way into one of the sanctuary's «villas» — a four - level enclosure with ladders, swings, and hammocks.
«If anyone is having a tantrum, we can pull over,» says Ali Crumpacker, executive director of Project Chimps.
She says Project Chimps is on track to build enough enclosures and outdoor habitats to take New Iberia's remaining 173 chimps within 5 years.
Not exact matches
The human (and all the other) genome projects were predicated on the reasonable assumption that spelling out the full sequence of genes would reveal the source of that diversity of form and attributes that so readily distinguish worm from fly, mouse, chimp and human.
If the project goes as planned, it will log the living conditions and mental health of most of the thousands of gorillas, chimps, bonobos (pygmy chimps), and orangutans in the United States.
NIH should retire most of the nearly 700 chimps it supports, end many research projects, and make sure that chimps still being studied are kept in proper living conditions, the panel's report says.
That includes six of nine biomedical projects that are using 81 of 93 chimps in those studies; only three of these projects, all involving infectious agents or immunology, should continue.
This week, a New York appellate court rejected a lawsuit by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) to free a chimp named Tommy from captivity.
Crockford, who along with with Roman Wittig directs the Taï Chimpanzee Project, decided to investigate chimp communication abilities.
The designers didn't love this game, they just threw together poorly understood ideas from other games like «Halo» and «Half - Life» so that the management chimps responsible for the project could be satisfied that it was ripping off popular products.
Her books on animals include «Lost and Found: Dogs, Cats and Everyday Heroes at a Country Animal Shelter» and «Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would be Human,» which was the basis for the documentary «Project Nim.»
2: Curiosités, Sans Titre, Paris XL Catlin Art Prize, London - Newcastle Project Space, London 2015 Chimp Cracks Nut With Rock, curated by Sean Steadman, Kennington Residency, London Cascading Relevant Information, Liverpool Shell Head, Light Eye Mind, London Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015, Primary, Nottingham and ICA, London 2014 Reely and Truly Film Club, Crunch Studios, London Unit, CGP London / Dilston Grove, London
Despite the fact that the chimps had never taken part in a research project before, they soon displayed an interest in film - making.
On this edition of Lawyer2Lawyer, hosts Bob Ambrogi and J. Craig Williams will talk with Wise about the case to grant a chimp the right to bodily liberty and The Nonhuman Rights Project's long - term plans for animal rights
In what will be the first of a series of similar legal actions, the project will be asking the court to rule that the chimp has the legal right to bodily liberty and to order her released from her cage and moved to a cage-less sanctuary.