Imagine seeing the sky for the first time. There are no words that could ever what Vanilla the Chimp must have been feeling when she left her enclosure and gazed up at the bright blue sky for the first time in her entire life. Vanilla is a 28-year-old survivor of New York’s infamous Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP) whose new home is the Save the Chimps sanctuary in Fort Pierce, Florida.
The LEMSIP was a New York University research facility founded in 1965 by Edward Goldsmith and Jan Moor-Jankowski, which was forcibly closed down in 1996, forcing all the chimpanzees and monkeys housed there to be relocated. Vanilla was among those primates who then transferred to a larger enclosure in California – a refuge that went out of business in 2019 and was threatened by wildfires.
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