Like prisoners emerging from a
lifetime behind bars, a group of chimpanzees step blinking into the
sunlight with what appears for all the world to be a wave and a smile.
And
they have much to be joyful about. For this is the first time they have
felt grass under their feet and breathed fresh air for 30 years.
Though
a few of the chimps were born in captivity, most were kidnapped from
African jungles as babies and flown to Europe, where they were locked in
metal laboratory cages to be used in a long series of experiments.
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Hello world: With a wave and what appears to be a smile, chimpanzees step into the daylight for the first time in 30 years at the Gut Aiderbichl Animal Sanctuary,
near Salzburg, Austria
