Ending Mad Chimp Science Experiments
-->Back in the late 1970s, I received a videotape from anonymous animal rights activists who had broken into a research lab and stole videotapes of orangutans having their brains scrambled, ostensibly to help treat automobile head injuries.
The terrified orangutans were strapped to a machine that shook their heads so violently, that everything inside their skull was rattled loose.
At the conclusion, the bewildered, addled and uncoordinated orangutans reached out for help from the only source they knew for comfort — the very people in white smocks who administered the torture. In was inexpressibly sad and couldn’t help but remind me those poor souls in the Soviet Gulag who bemoaned: “If only Comrade Stalin knew, he’d save us.”
Worse was when the researchers posed and mocked their wards — putting cigarettes in orangutan mouths, imitating their discombobulated state. I thought of those unhappy, psychotic orangutans after reading a new book by Toronto writer and primatologist Andre Westoll — The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary — which documents the only chimpanzee sanctuary in Canada, at Cambly, Quebec, about 25 km southeast of Montreal.
Gloria Grow and her veterinarian partner, Richard Allan, turned their 240-acre hobby farm into a retirement home for chimpanzees who’d been mentally and physically ravaged from invasive experiments for decades. Infected with the HIV-AIDS virus, hepatitis, various biopsies and experimental surgery, it was hoped cures would result for human ailments.
It was all largely a waste of time. AIDS does not affect chimps, but the torturous treatment they received — being removed from their mothers within a few days, being kept in a five by five by seven-foot cage for decades, tranquilized by dart guns hundreds of time, enduring surgery and needles, every chimp was an emotional wreck. All were psychotic, some mad. Theirs is a horror story without pause.
Chimps have never been my favourite animal. Ever since reading of the exceptional research by Jane Goodall on chimpanzees at the Gombe National Park in Tanzania, chimps have in fact long been my least favourite primate.
As the world’s foremost expert on chimps, Goodall has documented how loving they can be, how loyal, trusting, generous and compassionate they can be. But also how cruel, mean, vindictive, and brutal they also can be — just like humans, with whom they share roughly 98 percent of the same DNA.
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"We quite literally are connected," he said of humans and chimpanzees. While there are changes that can be measured in terms of wildlife protection and research regulations, perhaps the most powerful impact of the Foutses' work is harder to quantify
With some 149 Congressional co-sponsors, the Great Ape Protection Act (GAPA) would prohibit invasive biomedical research on chimps and all great apes — something the European Union has already banned. GAPA is vehemently opposed by the Federation of
She said that while there's a ban on sale and ownership of exotic pets in Connecticut following a brutal attack by a chimpanzee in 2009, there is no ban in nearby New York, so it would be quite easy for a roaming animal like a mountain lion to make its
"As an animal protection advocate, I implore you to help 14 chimpanzees who were recently moved to a notorious Texas laboratory, where they are being used in harmful experiments. "These chimpanzees had already been subjected to invasive research for
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Back in the late 1970s, I received a videotape from anonymous animal rights activists who had broken into a research lab and stole videotapes of orangutans having their brains scrambled, ostensibly to help treat automobile head injuries.
The terrified orangutans were strapped to a machine that shook their heads so violently, that everything inside their skull was rattled loose.
At the conclusion, the bewildered, addled and uncoordinated orangutans reached out for help from the only source they knew for comfort — the very people in white smocks who administered the torture. In was inexpressibly sad and couldn’t help but remind me those poor souls in the Soviet Gulag who bemoaned: “If only Comrade Stalin knew, he’d save us.”
Worse was when the researchers posed and mocked their wards — putting cigarettes in orangutan mouths, imitating their discombobulated state. I thought of those unhappy, psychotic orangutans after reading a new book by Toronto writer and primatologist Andre Westoll — The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary — which documents the only chimpanzee sanctuary in Canada, at Cambly, Quebec, about 25 km southeast of Montreal.
Gloria Grow and her veterinarian partner, Richard Allan, turned their 240-acre hobby farm into a retirement home for chimpanzees who’d been mentally and physically ravaged from invasive experiments for decades. Infected with the HIV-AIDS virus, hepatitis, various biopsies and experimental surgery, it was hoped cures would result for human ailments.
It was all largely a waste of time. AIDS does not affect chimps, but the torturous treatment they received — being removed from their mothers within a few days, being kept in a five by five by seven-foot cage for decades, tranquilized by dart guns hundreds of time, enduring surgery and needles, every chimp was an emotional wreck. All were psychotic, some mad. Theirs is a horror story without pause.
Chimps have never been my favourite animal. Ever since reading of the exceptional research by Jane Goodall on chimpanzees at the Gombe National Park in Tanzania, chimps have in fact long been my least favourite primate.
As the world’s foremost expert on chimps, Goodall has documented how loving they can be, how loyal, trusting, generous and compassionate they can be. But also how cruel, mean, vindictive, and brutal they also can be — just like humans, with whom they share roughly 98 percent of the same DNA.
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