CHIMPANZEE PET FULL
It's kind of full circle, for me, to have Huey and Pancake to be the chimps that are coming now." But that makes sense after 20 years of them being together. "Huey is way more devoted to Pancake than I recall, very attached to her. Both Pancake and I have put on a little bit of weight," Fultz says with a laugh. "I think we've all aged, obviously, in different ways.
The two chimps are now hanging out in a building that serves as the welcome center for Chimp Haven, the largest chimpanzee sanctuary in the world and the official retirement home for research chimps owned or supported by the federal government.Ī co-founder of Chimp Haven, Amy Fultz, actually knew Huey and Pancake back in the 1990s, when she was working at that Texas research facility and dreaming of someday creating a sanctuary for retired research chimps. They traveled for hours to a place in Louisiana where the hoots of hundreds of chimpanzees echo over pine trees. Together, they got loaded onto a truck at a research facility in Texas, where they've lived since they were young.
Huey, a male, and Pancake, a female, have been devoted to each other for over two decades. Many former research chimpanzees have been sent to retire at the sanctuary.įor two chimpanzees named Huey and Pancake, both in their mid-30s, this week has been unexpectedly dramatic. Two chimpanzees roam the grounds of Chimp Haven in Louisiana.
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