Vanilla, a 28-year-old chimpanzee, had never been outside of a cage or enclosure. She is one of the surviving chimps from the New York-based Laboratory for Experimental Medicine & Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP). Vanilla and her sister, Shake, have a new island home at Save the Chimps in Fort Pierce, Florida.
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A zoo in America caused a minor international incident with my country a few months back because they were posting videos of them badly mistreating our national bird. A lot of people with personal experience with that zoo came out to say that the zoo does amazing conservation work and them abusing animals for profit was totally out of character despite them having done it for at least 3 years. Even “enlightened” zoos treat animals like shit when it’d get them a decent chunk of money.