Lab Chimps Play in the Sun for the First Time

Lab Chimps Play in the Sun for the First Time.

These monkeys were caged/kept indoors their entire lives and have finally been allowed outside to play.

Narration translation:

Woman Narrator:
They see for the first time in their lives, the sun. After decades in an experiment laboratory, this is the first step of the chimpanzees in to freedom.

Man Narrator:
They hugged each other, like they would say they were finally free. And then they laughed. One imagines being locked up for 30 years in an elevator, then to open the door with friends and say "I don't believe it." They have only seen people wearing protective clothing; they have never had regular contact. They never learned to climb, because they were brought to the laboratory as babies. Now they can finally get out.

Woman Narrator:
Most of the former 38 monkeys have spent the entire lives behind bars. Since 2002, they are now in an Austrian village, slowing being prepared a life in freedom. This moment was for both animal and people equally unique.

Man Narrator:
I saw a chimpanzee, who was starring completely fascinated at a butterfly. He knew it, from back when he was a small chimpanzee in the jungle, and now he can see them again.

Woman Narrator:
And the monkeys that were born in the laboratory are discovering everything for the first time. The air, the grass, the freedom.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• lab chimps
• play
• sun
• chimps
• monkeys

[Gracelyassa]

who came from the 50 greatest viral videos 2011 video?

[GovernmentHo0ker]

:')

[DANIEL108]

@schok51 you're dumb, they're not monkey's either, read a book.

[schok51]

@DANIEL108 And that's enough for me.

[DANIEL108]

@schok5 So, you're formulating you're opinion based on the vague understanding that the experiment is of some relation to AIDS. Wow..

[schok51]

@DANIEL108 I mean necessary as ,there are no other viable alternatives to attain the goal of the experiment.If that experiment's goal is to help solving problems affecting human lifes and human condition,and that no other viable alternatives exist to animal testing,to reach that goal,then I consider it ethically acceptable.

[schok51]

@DANIEL108 As I understood,the experiments done on those chimps were related to AIDS.I don't support animal testing when not necessary for saving or improving human life (for example,I wouldn't support it in the cosmetic industry).But when it comes to developping cures for diseases that affects human lifes ,I can tolerate it.

[JoshuaDoerksen]

Can you imagine if this was done to humans? Its truly sad that we are so arrogant that we view ourselves as better then every other species and do things like this to them. "One imagines being locked up for 30 years in an elevator, then to open the door with friends and say "I don't believe it."", this came to his mind and it was still a good idea to put these helpless animals through years without seeing sunlight. The worst thing is they make it have such a happy spin.... Enraging!

[DANIEL108]

@schok51 I don't understand how you find a correlation between experimenting on the chimps in this video and reducing human struggle. Harming animals is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for mitigating human struggle my friend. Please stop promoting torture.

[DANIEL108]

@DANIEL108 When I say they have a choice not to conduct the experiment in an inhumane manner, it is explicit that if no humane alternative exists, then they can choose not to continue with the experiment.

[DANIEL108]

@schok51 Also, how do you define necessary? Did the experiment involve some sort of time constraint? I don't understand what necessity substantiates the torture of intelligent animals? please explain this to me. The belief that humans have the right to harm animals while in pursuit of scientific discovery is blatantly chauvinistic.

[DANIEL108]

@schok51 you're grossly misusing the word involuntary. Even if you suppose that no other experimental alternatives existed, it doesn't fall under involuntary. They have the choice not to conduct the experiment in an inhumane manner. So you're still wrong in that respect. Chimps aren't just dumb animals. They have mental states, they experience pain, and they experience fear. All of which are properties we share with them. So to cause these animals pain, intentionally, is psychopathic.