One of my wife's greatest wishes is to some day hold a chimpanzee
(especially a young one, though I think any chimpanzee at all would be
sufficient). Is this possible to do legally and (perhaps more
importantly) ethically, and if so, where?

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Request for Question Clarification by richard-ga on 25 Jun 2006 14:05 PDT

Turn your speaker volume DOWN before you click on that valbuenachimps site!

Where do you live, i.e. what U.S. state (or elsewhere), and how far
would you be willing to drive or fly?

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Clarification of Question by marwatk-ga on 25 Jun 2006 15:35 PDT

Thanks for the warning on the volume...

I live in Colorado, and while it would be nice if it were local, this
is something we wouldn't mind travelling (inside the US) for.

There are numerous primate research centers in the US. Perhaps your
wife can contact one of them to see whether she could do some
volunteer work. In the 1960s, when I was a college student, I had
numerous encounters with chimpanzees at a primate research center.
There's always work to be done at such places.

I'll leave any ethical considerations to you:

http://valbuenachimps.com/index.html

Have a good day.

Thanks thither! That's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.