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

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Retired lab chimpanzees housed in a New Mexico facility are headed for greener pastures in an animal sanctuary next spring.

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

The National Institutes of Health confirmed Friday that 23 chimps from New Mexico will make the move in the coming months.

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"Given this uncertainty, NIH has determined that the best course of action for the welfare of all these chimpanzees is to relocate them to the federal sanctuary at Chimp Haven.” Agency ...

Chimp Haven is a private, nonprofit refuge on 200 acres of forested land just south of Shreveport in Keithville, Louisiana. The refuge is home to nearly 300 chimps retired from biomedical research.