San Diego Zoo CHIMPANZEES laugh outperform humans & 1300 are experimentmented on till death! HD

As of November 2007, there were 1,300 chimpanzees housed in 10 U.S. laboratories (out of 3,000 great apes living in captivity there), either wild-caught, or acquired from circuses, animal trainers, or zoos. Most of the labs either conduct or make the chimps available for invasive research, defined as "inoculation with an infectious agent, surgery or biopsy conducted for the sake of research and not for the sake of the chimpanzee, and/or drug testing". Two federally funded laboratories use chimps: Yerkes National Primate Research Laboratory at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Southwest National Primate Center in San Antonio, Texas. Five hundred chimps have been retired from laboratory use in the U.S. and live in sanctuaries in the U.S. or Canada.

Chimpanzees used in biomedical research tend to be used repeatedly over decades, rather than used and killed as with most laboratory animals. Some individual chimps currently in U.S. laboratories have been used in experiments for over 40 years. According to Project R&R, a campaign to release chimps held in U.S. labs — run by the New England Anti-Vivisection Society in conjunction with Jane Goodall and other primate researchers — the oldest known chimp in a U.S. lab is Wenka, who was born in a laboratory in Florida on May 21, 1954. She was removed from her mother on the day of birth to be used in a vision experiment that lasted 17 months, then sold as a pet to a family in North Carolina. She was returned to the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in 1957 when she became too big to handle. Since then, she has given birth six times, and has been used in research into alcohol use, oral contraceptives, ageing, and cognitive studies.

With the publication of the chimpanzee genome, there are reportedly plans to increase the use of chimps in labs, with some scientists arguing that the federal moratorium on breeding chimps for research should be lifted. A five-year moratorium was imposed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1996, because too many chimps had been bred for HIV research, and it has been extended annually since 2001.

Other researchers argue that chimps are unique animals and either should not be used in research, or should be treated differently. Pascal Gagneux, an evolutionary biologist and primate expert at the University of California, San Diego, argues that, given chimpanzees' sense of self, tool use, and genetic similarity to human beings, studies using chimps should follow the ethical guidelines that are used for human subjects unable to give consent.

An increasing number of governments are enacting a Great Ape research ban forbidding the use of chimpanzees and other great apes in research or toxicology testing. As of 2006, Austria, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK had introduced such bans.

Chimpanzees make tools and use them to acquire foods and for social displays; they have sophisticated hunting strategies requiring cooperation, influence and rank; they are status conscious, manipulative and capable of deception; they can learn to use symbols and understand aspects of human language including some relational syntax, concepts of number and numerical sequence. Young chimpanzees have outperformed human college students in tasks requiring remembering numbers.

Empathy

Recent studies have shown that chimpanzees engage in apparently altruistic behaviour.

Evidence for "chimpanzee spirituality" includes display of mourning, "incipient romantic love", "rain dance", appreciation of natural beauty such as a sunset over a lake, curiosity and respect towards wildlife (such as the python, which is neither a threat nor a food source to chimpanzees), empathy toward other species (such as feeding turtles) and even "animism" or "pretend play" in chimps cradling and grooming rocks or sticks.

Laughter in apes

Laughter might not be confined or unique to humans. The differences between chimpanzee and human laughter may be the result of adaptations that have evolved to enable human speech. Self-awareness of one's situation as seen in the mirror test, or the ability to identify with another's predicament (see mirror neurons), are prerequisites for laughter, so animals may be laughing in the same way that humans do.

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[kittygodmother]

Thank you for posting this. We are the stewards of the animals, and most of us are failing miserably at it. You set an important example.

[JamesHGraff]

@kittygodmother To: "Thank you for posting this. We are the stewards of the animals, and most of us are failing miserably at it. You set an important example." Thank you but I do virtually nothing to eliminate the unforgivable & inconceivable & utterly unnecessary suffering of our primate brothers & sisters. I hope everyone reads the video description & educates themselves & everyone else to this utter travesty. We aren't really stewards of anything except our own habitat-thus ALL of EARTH!

[stett99]

animal testing is fuckin disgusting

[JamesHGraff]

@stett99 In reply: Yeah, if our species survives, some day the whole civilization will hopefully look back on how we treat other species with shock and horror and say: "How utterly barbaric!" Especially with regard to so many species so closely related to our own...like the primates...or even other mammals...like rats even...it really is horrific...

[MISHA1119]

"He must get all the chicks." Sorry to disillusion you, but "he" is one of the chicks.

[ahonestwoman]

@DavidTheCatholic testing on animals in any situation does not help anyone to move forward. See chimps are NOT humans and humans are not chimps. So why test on them or any other animals. This is the 21st Century we don't need to use live animals in testing.

[JagjeetMann]

american humans maybe lmao, they're pretty stupid

[johnhchoiful]

yeah san diego zoo don't have any chimps [Pan troglodytes]. which is funny cuz most people know more about chimps. those are bonobos [Pan paniscus]. you can tell because of the sexual swelling that you see on the females and generally bonobos are alot more calm and "human-like" than chimpanzees

[seka1986]

THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE CHIMPS TO ME.

[legocody1]

those are acully bonobos

[UrbaneGent]

@sixaremycharms huge differences between chimp and bonobos...and that's how one scientist had two "chimps" and realized one was different in behaviour and look, the first to observe there is another species of Great Ape.

[bradlyw420]

@sharma19143 I think that was a vagina...lol