Today, there is much more awareness regarding respecting the lives of all living beings that inhabit this planet, which is why there are endless movements that defend the right of animals to have a dignified life and in their own habitat.
On the subject, a video that has gone viral in recent hours on social networks has reinforced the idea that animals have the right to live in their places of origin and not behind a cage.
It turns out that someone captured the moving moment of Vanilla, a 29-year-old female monkey who is a survivor of the Laboratory of Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP) in New York and who lived the experience of being in the open sky for the first time.
Vanilla recently arrived at the Save the Chimps Sanctuary in Fort Pierce, Florida, along with Dwight, her fellow monkey and the alpha male of their community, along with other monkeys.
The clip shows the moment this monkey enjoys seeing the sky for the first time, after spending her entire life in a cage.
Vanilla can’t contain her astonished face and she doesn’t stop looking up, while the rest of her herd approaches her, as if they wanted to calm her emotion, and another monkey ends up giving her a hug.
The video was shared by the primate sanctuary on its Instagram account and has thousands of views, as well as hundreds of comments from users who have been moved by the animal’s reaction.
The life of this monkey in freedom
Vanilla lived her first 2 years in the aforementioned laboratory in New York. When it closed in 1997, she was taken, with other monkeys, to California, to a larger but closed enclosure, where she stayed until 2019 because she was constantly threatened by wildfires.
Ultimately, the monkey ended up in “Save the Chimps,” after the sanctuary arranged with FedEx to bring her and her group to a 150-acre area of the Sunshine State.
“(Vanilla) was living with a handful of chimpanzees inside a chain-link fence cage with no grass and very little enrichment,” said Save the Chimps primatologist Dr. Andrew Halloran.
Now, Vanilla remains on an island along with 225 other chimpanzees discarded from laboratories, the entertainment industry, the exotic pet trade and zoos. Many had never interacted with individuals of their species.
Fortunately, the animal is adjusting very well to his new home, which he loves to explore together with his pack.
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