A NEW PLAYGROUND FOR THE PRIMATES
Published on Oct. 4, 2006
Photos by David Stephenson

After years of planning, a new enclosure for Primate Rescue Center’s 11 chimpanzees is completed.
It was a celebration unlike any other in these parts. The hoots and cries of excitement echoed through the valley near Jessamine Creek.
Like children set loose on a new playground, 11 chimpanzees climbed and swung in a new enclosure that opened yesterday at the Primate Rescue Center, a refuge for abandoned apes and monkeys.
- Greg Kocher

Click on the play triangle below to hear Primate Center director April Truitt talk about the big day and hear the chimps as they get outside for the first time in ten weeks.

Visit the Primate Rescue Center web site here.

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