Letters to the editor
World Chimpanzee Day Editor: World Chimpanzee Day is (was) July 14, and future generations will look back in denunciation at how we’ve allowed our closest non-human kin to be torn from their mothers, thrown into cages, experimented on, infected with diseases, locked in roadside zoos, and forced to perform. Dr. Jane Goodall and other scientists have irrefutably documented that chimpanzees live in rich, complex, and often difficult societies that closely parallel our own. We know that chimpanzees love, grieve, work, and play. They are highly intelligent, protect their families, come ...
