The desperate screams of fear captured on video by an HSUS undercover investigator speak volumes. This, coupled with hours of dreary boredom, is the life that more than 1,000 chimpanzees in US laboratories are forced to endure—some for over 50 years. But, with your help, The HSUS is working to make their suffering a thing of the past.
Midge spends his days lounging in the sun at The HSUS’s Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch—a sanctuary for rescued animals. But Midge’s life wasn’t always so carefree. This playful chimpanzee spent his first twenty years in a research laboratory, a traumatic experience that took a toll on his physical and mental health.
As people learn about the conditions that chimpanzees—highly intelligent and social animals who feel happiness, sorrow, pain and loneliness—are forced to endure in laboratories, pressure mounts to end their use in harmful research altogether, as has been done in so many other countries.
Watch The Video
A March 2009 undercover investigation by The Humane Society of the United States revealed psychological suffering of primates in research laboratories.
You Can Help
Ask your Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act, which would phase out harmful research on chimpanzees in laboratories and retire the approximately 500 federally owned chimpanzees to permanent sanctuary. TAKE ACTION »
Thank the National Institutes of Health for postponing the transfer of 186 chimpanzees to a research laboratory and ask them to grant all 200 chimpanzees at the Alamogordo Primate Facility permanent retirement. TAKE ACTION »
Check out our list of top ten ways to help animals in laboratories. TAKE ACTION »
News & Events
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April 25, 2012
Designing Fun for Retired Chimpanzees
The chimpanzees in retirement at Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch spent years captive in research laboratories. That’s why we make sure that our resident chimpanzees get the chance to do what they like—play, paint, or kick back—all day, every day.
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April 24, 2012
Congress Asked to Spare Chimps, Save Tax Dollars
The HSUS today asked members of the Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee on Water and Wildlife to take action on the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act (S. 810).
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February 2, 2012
Wayne's Blog: It’s Time to Bench the Super Bowl Chimp Ads
HSUS President and CEO Wayne Pacelle discusses a CareerBuilder ad featuring chimpanzees that will air during this year's Super Bowl.
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February 1, 2012
Conservation and Animal Welfare Groups Submit Comments Urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Increase Protections for Chimpanzees
The Humane Society of the United States and other animal protection organizations submitted public comments applauding the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for reviewing the status of the chimpanzee under the Endangered Species Act and urging the agency to act swiftly to protect all chimpanzees, captive and wild, by designating them all as endangered.
Our Victories
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January 20, 2012
Victory in Battle over Monkey-Breeding Facility
Following a highly publicized battle, Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court has ruled that Bioculture’s monkey breeding facility in Guayamna was constructed illegally and cannot operate.
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December 29, 2011
2011: Beautiful Victories for Animals in Laboratories
What do Botox, the Endangered Species Act, and biomedical research have in common? Find out about The HSUS's work to protect animals in laboratories in 2011.
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November 9, 2011
Five Chimpanzees Released from Laboratory Life
Five of the 26 elderly chimpanzees at New Iberia Research Center have been retired to a sanctuary. Please take action to free the 21 elderly chimpanzees who remain there, then help hundreds of other chimpanzees around the country who still suffer.
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October 19, 2011
Great News! The U.S. Army Will Stop Using Monkeys in Harmful Training Courses
The U.S. Army has announced that live monkeys will be replaced with humane non-animal alternatives in future chemical warfare trainings. More than 1,000 HSUS supporters contacted the Army urging that the use of monkeys be stopped.
