Member Day @ the PRC – May 17!

The day you've been waiting for all year is nearly here! Our annual Member Event is the one day each year we throw open the gates to welcome our members and supporters to the sanctuary. Gates open at 1:00pm and last guests must arrive by 4pm. Face painting, games...

“An Embarrassment of Chimpanzees”

In 2002, this is how writer Jospeh D'Agnese memorably referred to the massive surplus of chimpanzees the U.S. biomedical community found themselves burdened by. After mistakenly assuming decades earlier that our closest cousins would be the perfect research...

Hallelujah! NBC Cancels “Animal Practice”

After earning distinction this week as the lowest-rated network broadcast in its time slot, NBC has pulled the plug on the sitcom “Animal Practice.”  This over-hyped and ill-conceived flop featured Crystal the fear-grinning capuchin monkey in a...