A chimpanzee was awestruck when she saw open sky for the first time at a Florida sanctuary after spending 28 years in a cage. The chimp, named Vanilla, spent years in a medical research lab in New York before being moved to a California wildlife sanctuary, where she lived also lived in a cage.
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#Chimpanzee #Florida #Animals
He has no enemy’s
Humans are weird asf 28 years bro 🖕
Finally something good that happened in the news. please release more animals from cages and restore and release them to their natural environments or at the very least if they can’t someplace where they have space like this and adequate care for a animal of intelligence
I like the taps the other one gave her like “you gotta see this” lol
That’s cruelty to animals. Let them go back into wild. That why i don’t go too ZOO.
Animals living in captivity is not doing them any favours. They are meant to live freely. Animals do have feelings and thoughts go out to the wildlife.
Terrible things are what humans do to chimpanzees.
Word on the street, this chimp was Osama Bin Laden it’s next life.
Kerwin Claiborne… I know you going to do a voice over for this one 😂
im shocked that it is legal to experiment on and confine chimpanzees, they are more cognitive and aware than most of the people i see walking around these days
Now put those responsible in a cage for 28 years.
Humans ruin everything especially democrats
28 years of torture. Tell me again about humans being good
It died yesterday lol
Jail break.
I wouldn’t keep a rat locked in a cage for 28 years, let alone an animal like a chimpanzee.
There are some truly sick people out there in the world, roaming freely.
The way her eyes lit up made me smile I’m glad she was set free
28 years locked in a cage. Just think about that for a minute. It’s longer than some of you have been alive. Then think of the experiments they did on this beautiful, sentient creature for that entire time. Aren’t humans wonderful?
How about someone locks up the clowns who held this monkey prisoner?
A humans life doesn’t hold more worth than an animals.
Long have I believed that the higher primates (chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas) are just a different kind of people. Just look one in the eyes and you can see they are nowhere close to “just animals” (even though we are all just animals, but you know what I mean). Having now seen this video, I feel my opinion is validated. Just look at the emotion, the joyful, jubilant embrace, and her expression of wonder and almost disbelief when she is finally able to feel the sun on her face and breathe the fresh air. Nobody will ever be able to convince me otherwise now.
My heart breaks for all her brethren (and ours, really) who remain in captivity, enduring long days being mistreated, medicated, feeling sick, frightened, helpless and hopeless. While I understand the critical role they play for science, I will never not feel guilty for what we’ve done to them. They are sentient and it’s wrong.
28 yrs?! 💔 Bless her heart. 🙏❤️🪽
Why is it in a cage for 28 fn years
28 years, breaks my heart.
Of course if you eat meat you are condoning,supporting and encouraging the endless suffering of animals,stop being a hypocrite and go vegan
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This is heartbreaking. The cost humankind is willing to pay for pseudo-freedom is proving too high.
They need to transport those animals to Africa and release them.
Republicans after Democrats finally get rid of Trump 😂
And how many more animals are killed everyday for animal testing and food?
Evil American scientists
Chimpanzee more evolved than the humans that kept him in the cage.
Here at 1,028,503 views.
Wow, isolated from the outdoors since 1995! This shows that animals like Vanilla have feelings, it’s like seeing yourself in the mirror for the first time. I’m glad these apes were freed after many years.
Praying for another pandemic. Humanity isn’t worth keeping around.
Poor baby, 😔 it’s disgusting that she was in a cage for 28 years. Those people should be held accountable and be in prison for animal cruelty. Absolutely heartbreaking. I’m glad she can get to enjoy her life now and have some happiness.
😢 I’m happy that they got her out…..we can try saving them even if it’s just 1 animal at a time……
Nothing like FREEDOM 💗
He even said “wow” natural reaction 😅
Notice that the chimps were taken from liberal states and found sanctuary in a republican state. Democrats like to talk about compassion and taking care of nature but it’s all talk.
Whats wrong with you Americans that everything is about race and/or politics. And you all wonder why the rest of the world looks at your country as being full of nut cases. No wonder your country is as bad as it is.
Well it’s not like they put Themselves in the Cages so….
So glad she was finally let out of that cage poor thing! She looked so happy ❤
The least that we can all do is stop funding brands that still use animal testing. Please consider it!
Most of the time I’m embarrassed to be a human being
It’s disgusting when we do these highly intelligent animals. I hope All the animals that are experimented on get a chance to roam free for a while one day.
That Was The Most Human Reaction, I’ve EVER Seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Wow Poor Baby. 28 years that’s awful😢. Bless all of you who let her see the sky and other chimps. Thanks to those who have taken care of her all these years. Bittersweet 😢❤🙏🙏🙏😘
Human cruelty and brutality not only cause suffering to other humans but to natural life. Humans truly are not deserving of having this Earth. Human greed, selfishness, and destructiveness will be the cause of humanity’s destruction, but it saddens me that all natural life which desires to live needs to suffer.
And why was he locked up without sunlight? Sad humans 😢
Cruel cruel cruel!
That’s horrible man 28 years and you were born in nature 🤦🏽♂️ glad this chimp free , now free the rest
Looks like Hillary Clinton when they dropped the balloons😂 Trump 2024 four mo years🎉
me after 72 hours in my chumchum room
thank god
Her expression when she looks up just screams “GOD”
I’m trying to get on her level
Utter gratefulness
How tf could you keep anything in a cage for 28 years. This is disgraceful by all accounts. We’re the animals
That poor thing
Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. – Optimus Prime
Humans can be so cruel.
So sad and i hope that the peope that did this are haunted by 1000 chimps in their nightmares turned reality.
That hug tho at the beginning was genuine.
We treat our cousins as bad as we treat each other.
Long overdue release!!!
God will punish us for this in-humane behavior.
The embrace. Just like us.
This was us after covid.
I picture the same reactions when Thomas Jefferson emancipated the swaves.
I like how they greeted one another
Was the chimp locked for double homicide??
The way the other chimps hugged and welcomed her in the sanctuary, reaffirms she’s safe.
li cant believe they named her “vanilla”….
😡😡😡😡 it’s time to put the humans who did this to this defenseless chimp in a cage for the same amount of years. Who agrees? 🙋♂️
That’s me at the strip club..
Who had it in a cage? There needs to be more accountability and justice
Jail time.. I fell sorry for these animals.
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We are the most cruel species that has ever lived , we make the dinosaurs look like the good guys.
We deserve extinction
that’s so sad
Absolutely no animal should be in a cage. I have never agreed with it, and I never will.
Humans are so cruel
Bruh said ayyyyyee woooo 😂😂😂🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
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Literally me on my one day off a week…
I want a hug from a chimp! Lol such intelligent and beautiful beings!
This is me after gaming
I think there should definitely be a limit on the time an animal is caged in laboratories.
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Poor baby, human beings are horrible probably some of the worst living beings to ever walk this planet.
The hug it makes me sad he was captivated for so long basically a person a good one too
Why was she in a cage that long? Humans are evil.
research
Bless her heart and soul, Ameen Suma Ameen ❤️❤️😟.
Ibrahim Syal
Is that with or without *CHEMTRIALS?* 🤷🏾♂️
Bro, they have feelings😢
Whoa!!! As Vanilla says.We are awestruck by her happiness and newfound freedom. Kudos to all that it happen. 👍👏👏👏
Tears 😢
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