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The mission of Project Chimps is "to provide lifelong exemplary care to chimpanzees retired from research". [9]To fulfill its mission of assisting these endangered nonhuman primates, Project Chimps has established several public education programs including Discovery Days and Chimpcation, [10] The sanctuary also hosts veterinary, behavioral, animal care and organizational development interns ...
Nim Chimpsky [1] (November 19, 1973 – March 10, 2000) was a chimpanzee used in a study to determine whether chimps could learn a human language, American Sign Language (ASL). The project was led by Herbert S. Terrace of Columbia University with linguistic analysis by psycholinguist Thomas Bever .
Save the Chimps’ origins trace back to the plight of chimpanzees “retiring” from the U.S. space program’s Mercury Project — many were sent to a biomedical lab, where they were subjected ...
Lana—chimpanzee, reared at Yerkes National Primate Research Center as part of its language analogue project; Loulis—chimpanzee, involved in ape hand-signing research; Lucy—chimpanzee, cross-fostered and raised by University of Oklahoma psychotherapist; Moja—chimpanzee, involved in ape hand-signing research
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Animals at the shelter include primates formerly used in animal research, chimpanzees retired from the United States Air Force (mostly Holloman Air Force Base) and the NASA space program, and Oliver, a chimpanzee exhibited around the world for many years and often referred to as the "humanzee," because of speculation in the past that he might be part human.