OMZ, chimps freed from life long cages are overjoyed amazed at the outside, grin & hug one another!1

[UTUSN]

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http://www.peoplepets.com/people/pets/article/0,,20526252,00.html

Overjoyed Chimps See Daylight for the First Time in Decades

Upon seeing the outdoors for the first time in 30 years, a group of chimpanzees in Austria broke out into wide grins and leapt into the grass. The chimps, who had been used for medical research by a pharmaceutical company, had been kept in cages for most of their lives.

Testing on the chimps ended in 1997, when the pharmaceutical company was bought by American organization Baxter, but it took until now to get the animals back outdoors. The apes' keepers had to help them get readjusted to the idea of a world beyond their enclosure, and it seems all the hard work has paid off.

When the door to the facility opened, the chimps hugged each other and stared in amazement at their new world. They will now continue to enjoy a freer universe at an animal sanctuary outside Salzburg.

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[mysuzuki2]

1. I am happy for them.

it is hard not to think of them as people.

[Orrex]

2. How long until they bite off some poor bastard's face, hands, and genitals?

[UTUSN]

3. Yeah, in the penguin GD thread, tracking his (slow) return swim home

I posted a de-DISNEY-fying reminder that the penguin had fattened up in his rescue, maybe gotten spoiled, and had to be pushed into the water for the couple of thousand mile swim, and in the first day only did seven kilometers or so. So somebody zinged me as "begrudging" the poor animal who had been starving and had had three pounds of sand it had eaten in the starved delusion of thinking it was snow.

But my own outlook, deep down, is anti- (anthropomorphic)/I'll look up the word. I really don't believe that humans have a higher right to enjoy or experience existence than other things, including whatever inanimate things exist. But I *do* eat, such that animals and plants escape my blessing, as do spiders and snakes that come near me. Otherwise, I wouldn't kill a fly, but think the death penalty is appropriate for some horrible, despicable humans.

Anyway, the humans who caged these chimps for experimentation, experimentation that probably benefited humans, are probably far out of reach after 30 years from the chimps' possible retaliation.




ON EDIT: Apparently, "(anti-)anthropomorphic" is not the word I'm looking for. "Human centric" in Google seems to be more of a computer concept. What I mean is the view of the world where humans are the center of all-importance, with more rights and all other life forms and inanimate forms are way lesser and expendable according to what humans need. I'm "anti-" that.

[7wo7rees]

4. I want to live THERE.

I wish I could throw open my door and hug someone in gratitude for the right to be free!!!!!!

I haven't "grinned" in a while.

[UTUSN]

5. Thanks for your empathy. n/t

[7wo7rees]

6. Thank YOU for sharing this!