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You've probably all heard the story about Vanilla the 28 year old chimp seeing the sky "for the first time in her life" at Save the Chimps.That's not true. She was raised at a breeders then sold to a lab. She lived in the lab for less than a year. In 1995 when she was one year old she was sent to exotic animal rescue
Wildlife Waystation here in California. There was no solid secure roof originally which is against USDA and Fish & Wildlife regulations. Some of the chimps escaped so they were forced to add a secure roof. It wasn't all a solid roof. It was also chain link just like the sides. The chimps could see the sky through the roof and sides, see photo below. It was actually a pretty large enclosure. This is just an upper loft area.
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Vanilla the chimp is most likely just in awe she could see the sky again after being in quarantine for six months indoors. She looks like me after I've been inside for a couple of days working and I go outside and see a beautiful day. The article also forgets that Vanilla is still in captivity.
A lot of these places make up stories to go viral to get mega donations. This place already raised $4,000,000 just to take the Wildlife Waystation chimps, https://ktla.com/news/local-news/last-of-the-stranded-wildlife-waystation-chimpanzees-finally-relocated/ . They refused to take the chimps unless they were given millions of dollars. Martine Colette did the same when she first took the 32 chimps from the lab. Now they make another story to get more donations. They have a board, employees to be paid so they need to raise massive amounts of money. In the end animals are saved so that's all that really matters. Still, the truth would be nice.
"Vanilla, a 28-year-old chimpanzee, has lived her entire life in captivity without an unobscured view of the sky. But now, a heartwarming new video shows the great ape seeing the sky for the first time at an island chimp sanctuary in Florida.
For a portion of her early life, Vanilla lived inside a New York biomedical research facility, where she and dozens of other chimps (Pan troglodytes) were housed in small cages "suspended from the ground like bird cages," according to a statement from Save the Chimps, a sanctuary in Fort Pierce, Florida, that rescued her and 29 of her peers.
After being removed from the New York facility in 1995, Vanilla and other captive chimps were shipped to the Wildlife Waystation, an animal rescue facility in California that shuttered in 2019, where she was boxed inside a roofed enclosure, cut off from the outside world, according to the Daily Mail."
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