THANK YOU FOT THIS! rated.

Oh, how annoying an ad keeps coming up first, but the video is so worth it!!

Thanks, Jon. Aren't their faces just proof of their feeling joy? I love how the first one turns and hugs his buddies.
What a nightmare of existence that has ended for them, hopefully, finally...

We can only hope they were part of a "control group".
Centuries from now, I hope there is a statue of a chimp
in Washington DC with the words of Churchill engraved underneath:
"never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many
to so few"

So beautifully put, James.
Just the expressions are so telling, much less the hugs and other signs of intelligent life...more intelligent than we are I sometimes think....

Now if we could only get humans to react similarly to all they have .....

Animals have feelings we cannot fathom. We have yet to understand this, which is why I support animal rights over many other causes. Fascinating!

I love chimps! Such cute little smarties. I would marry a chimp if it were legal.
Thanks for this, JT.

This made me tear up. Animals are conscious, they have feelings. My pets prove this to me every day. Thank you for sharing this.

alsoknownas: The immediate joy and celebration of those chimps is what has been sinking in more deeply for me over the day since I first saw this clip...
Lea: I fully agree with you, there is such intelligent energy 'we' humans either don't understand or choose not to for reasons of personal gain...this video has stuck with me all day.
You're welcome, fernsy : ) This was too....oh, no words....not to figure out how to share.

Rei: I too am so touched by these animals too. That their coats look so dull and worn is just hard to see. Their joy is inspiring me to remember how to celebrate the present without being burdened by moments that belong firmly in the past...

I don't doubt it for a moment and I have seen emotion in other animals no matter what the "experts" will say. I watched the mother of the young filly we lost mourn the death of her baby. For two days she stood at the fence and stared at the last place her baby lay. She held her head low, close to the ground and she wouldn't move. It took us two days to coax her to her feed and water. Yes, I believe with all my heart.

Poor babies you could feel their fear and joy as they walked out of their prison cells...why do we do this?

So sad. Poor babies~

That video was amazing and made me sad for all the years of captivity and experimentation on them. Watching them come outside was so very human. Thanks so much for sharing this.

this was great.. I can barely see but I had to come over and watch it..
i will be back to normal tomorrow

That is so damn neat, wow~!

Animals are people too, just not human people. We sometimes buy into the idea that there's a separation between us and the rest of nature, that our self-awareness and ability to feel is unique to us alone, but that's an absurd idea. All one needs to do is watch animals to see how absurd it is.

*sniff* damn.

I'm glad I can't watch this since I'm at work but I get the gist of it from the comments. All one has to do to be convinced an animal has a soul is look into its eyes.

can you imagine 30 years without seeing the anything but a lab!

i noticed from the longer videos that one of the chimps is bipedal.
he could pass for half of the people i see on the street.

It made me so sad to think that any living thing, other than those that live in the dark by nature, would be deprived of sunlight. Especially animals that live for many years. Perhaps the people who do that to them should be kept away from the sun for a month so they might understand. Just because something is not human does not mean it's not alive. I'm so glad these few are free.

I tried to view this three times but it is not loading for me. Might be a north of the border thing. I'm going to Google it elsewhere to see if I can view.

Saw the video elsewhere and back now. I'm still trying to get my mind around chimps being on the endangered species list.

Seeing their reaction, it's not at all hard to believe we have 96% DNA in common. Great to see they're enjoying their day in the sun.

This is so moving, and I am happy, too, that their days as laboratory animals are over - and because a company made a conscious choice to not test on them. Thank you for posting this - so many people forget that just because animals don't talk, and do many things very differently from us, they still feel and think and remember.

goose bumps

Beautiful.

Brings to mind the scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey when the chimps find the monolith sticking out of the sand, except that was dazzling, this is heart rending.

Wow, thanks for coming by!
I must have looked at this video a dozen times, I just loved, and was wrecked by, these animals responses, and the fact that they didn't seem any different than thrilled humans, bi-pedal and all...

Torman: That is not a surprise to me at all, but how heartrending to see that grieving Mama...

Lunchlady: Indeed, how could we??? Thank goodness for Baxter, who stopped all animal testing and allowed this moment to occur...

Thanks for coming by, Susie, it's sad but also wonderful to see how they celebrate right away and leave behind their past. For that moment, anyway...

Mary: Maybe that's why I kept re-running the clip, how human they seemed, but better! Would a human rush to such joy upon release? I keep wondering that...
Nice to have you come by!

Hi Linda, I wasn't much normal yesterday either, was I!? Too distracted as school starts today and I was trying to multi-task too far, went right over the edge. : )
Glad to see you!

Scanner, isn't it just the coolest?

nana: It is so absurd to believe in the separation you speak of. Even stepping outside to fill the bird feeder I can tell how intertwined our consciousnesses are, but I fear some people have such an invested interest in their own purposes, they can put on strong blinders...
...or they must be unfeeling, torturing sadists.
Oops, my kind and giving-the-benefit-of-the-doubt veneer slipped.

First day of school and here I am typing away on replies!
I'll be back : )

One more...
Julie!
Nice to see you here-- didn't mean to make you cry : (
They're happy now!

OMG this is really fine. Thanks for sharing...

Pretty amazing.

Margaret: So true, that look in the eyes...I hope you have a chance to see the video somewhere, the joy and amazement they have is palpable.

wschanz: That's what I kept thinking of, all those years in a lab? With no natural light at all??? Torture, in my book, plain and simple. Was it really thirty years? I didn't hear that part, but not a surprise I guess. That one guy does walk just like half the folks on the street, with the same gestures...why do we do this? I ask again...

l'heure: I agree wholeheartedly. Glad to see you : )

Scarlett: The imbalances in our world are just shocking sometimes. I'm glad you were able to see this somewhere! Pretty cool, eh?

Abrawang: No surprise at all, and I really hope they have a luxurious life from here on out. Glad to have you come by --

Alysa: No animal should be tested on, in my opinion, it is just wrong, all wrong, unless they are signing a voluntary contract.
I just loved to see their faces though, the turn and hug...couldn't have said more with that hug...