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St. Lucie County board OKs expansion of chimpanzee center
  
December 18, 2003

More than 260 former research chimpanzees soon will have a home in St. Lucie 
County.

St. Lucie County commissioners have approved the expansion of the Center for 
Captive
Chimpanzee Care. The center, west of Fort Pierce, has plans to build 11 
island homes for
the research chimps, which currently are in Alamogordo, N.M.

Since the center opened in 2001, it has housed more than 20 chimpanzees 
formerly owned by
the Air Force and used for space research.

Each of the islands will house about 25 chimpanzees and include shelters and 
recreation
areas, according to plans submitted to the county. The center now has one 
such island.

Its directors eventually plan to construct a historical museum with a space 
chimp
exhibit, a public education facility and research cottages on the 200-acre 
campus.

The center currently is not open to the public, but visitors will be allowed 
in the
museum and education center once they're completed. The chimpanzees would be 
seen through
a video monitoring system. 
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