Originally published August 14, 2007 at 12:00 AM | Page modified August 14, 2007 at 8:43 AM
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A new sanctuary for chimpanzees near Cle Elum, Kittitas County, will welcome its first seven residents next spring, the nonprofit Chimpanzee...
YAKIMA — A new sanctuary for chimpanzees near Cle Elum, Kittitas County, will welcome its first seven residents next spring, the nonprofit Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest said Monday.
The chimps, one male and six females, range in age from 24 to 34. In captivity, chimpanzees can live into their 60s, but generally their life span is 35 to 50 years.
The $150,000 sanctuary, still under construction, is one of nine such chimpanzee sanctuaries in the United States. It is being built to give permanent homes to chimps that have been used by the entertainment and biomedical industries.
The chimpanzees will be transferred next spring from Buckshire Corp., in Perkasie, Pa., a laboratory and quarantine facility that provides chimpanzees for testing.
Five were believed to have been born at the laboratory. They were mostly used for hepatitis B vaccine studies and have no infectious diseases, the sanctuary said.
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