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Fire and Ice: Making Chili for Chimps

Project Chimps chili recipes

Project Chimps took top honors at the 2018 Fire and Ice Chili Cook-off in Blue Ridge Georgia with a vegan chili recipe. Now the team returns to defend the sanctuary’s title.

Get the recipe and the whole story in our February 2019 newsletter.

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One Chimp’s Journey to Sanctuary – part two

Kareem’s story starts with the heart-wrenching fact that, like many chimpanzees who were born in research facilities, he was pulled from his mother at just a few days old. It’s difficult to think about the devastation that Kareem’s mother must have endured when her baby was pulled from her loving arms. Caregivers swaddled him in diapers and placed him in the lab’s chimpanzee nursery.

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One Chimp’s Journey to Sanctuary – part one

Kareem was only 5 years old and living at the now-closed Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP) in New York City. It was 1994 and a compassionate caregiver named Nancy was trying to lure Kareem back into his small cage after a day of innocent play in the lab’s nursery playroom. Kareem was tired of going back into a tiny cage each time his play sessions were over, so he held back.

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