Bob Barker Does It Again
May 30, 2012 by Michael Mountain
Just three weeks after he completed a half-million-dollar donation to Chimp Haven, a Louisiana sanctuary for former laboratory chimpanzees, Bob Barker has sent $250,000 to Save the Chimps, a sanctuary in Florida.
PBS Takes Up the Chimp Testing Debate
May 12, 2012 by Michael Mountain
There are no other animals quite like them, except us. They share 99 percent of our DNA, and it shows. They scheme, plot and fight. They care for their babies, and they grieve their dead. And they love a good game of catch, emphasis on good, as I discovered. PBS NewsHour reporter Miles O’Brien visits [...]
Bob Barker to Chimps: “Come On Down!”
May 4, 2012 by Michael Mountain
Last year, he donated $380,000 for a new habitat at Chimp Haven. And last week, the irrepressible Bob Barker flew down to the sanctuary in Louisiana to cut the ribbon — or rather to pick up the microphone and call out to five newly arrived chimpanzees: “Come on down!”