This Video Of A Chimpanzee Captive For 29 Years Seeing The Sky For The First Time Will Make You Cry

The fine line between humans and chimpanzees is thinner than ever, in this heartwarming video.

Vanilla is a 29-year-old chimpanzee, who has always lived locked up.. A video recorded by Save the Chimps shows the moment when see heaven for the first timeand it is almost impossible to hold back the tears.

Fear, excitement, wonder, happiness… They are human emotionsbut we see all of them reflected in the expressions of this endearing chimpanzee called vanilla.

A video that shows us that they are not so different from usand makes us wonder how we are treating animals with traits of intelligence and feelings.

Vanilla, the chimpanzee who sees the sky for the first time

How has life been? chimpanzee vanilla so that I couldn’t see the sky in their 29 years of life?

Save the Chimps is an NGO dedicated to pick up chimpanzees that have been subjected to experiments, or are caged, and takes them to his sanctuary island in Florida, where they can live in the wild in an area of ​​several square kilometers. They already live there 221 chimpanzees.

according to account on your website, Vanilla spent her first years at the Laboratory of Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates in New York, where was subjected to experiments.

was rescued by Wildlife Waystationan animal sanctuary, but due to saturation and few means, she spent 25 years locked in a shipwithout the possibility of going outdoors.

A few months ago, at 29 years of age, Vanilla arrived at the sanctuary island of Save the Chimps. She has spent all this time in an enclosed area to get used to his new companions. Until a few weeks ago, they opened the doors so that go outside to play for the first time in his life.

This moving video shows us the moment when the chimpanzee sees the sky for the first time:

At first Vanilla was afraid to go outuntil Dwight, the alpha male, approaches her to cheer her up. Their embrace, a mixture of joy and wonder, is almost human..

We can soon see how Vanilla looks at the sky with wondering eyes.emitting some muffled moans.

It is just as moving to see how her peers crowd around her to cheer her on and congratulate herThey seem to know that it’s their first time outside the concrete walls.

Vanilla continues to walk across the green grass of the island, looking up at the sky from time to time. He soon gets used to the good life, and his caregivers have confirmed that he is now walking and exploring the different corners of his new home with a happy face. A new life in freedom, and now, in the open air.

The video of Vanilla, the chimpanzee who captivates after 29 years, sees the sky for the first time, is one of the most moving we have seen in a long time. A video that makes us ask many questions about how we treat animals.