Vanilla the chimp, caged for entire life, sees sky for first time in heartwarming videoBy Emily Lefroy
June 26, 2023
How sweet is the open sky?
A touching video caught the first time that Vanilla the chimpanzee — a 29-year-old survivor of New York’s infamous Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP) — saw the open sky after arriving at the Save the Chimps sanctuary in Fort Pierce, Florida.
Vanilla had never been outside of a 5-foot-square cage or a garage-sized enclosure until she moved in — and by the looks of it, she is spellbound by her new ape abode.
Vanilla lived in the notorious laboratory — which closed in 1997 — until she was 2.
She was then among a group transferred to California, where she was confined to a larger enclosure at a refuge that went out of business in 2019 and was threatened by wildfires.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/06/26/vanilla-the-chimp-caged-entire-life-sees-sky-for-first-time-in-heartwarming-video/
