Circus wins battle to keep aging chimp

[Still Waters]

A legal and ethical drama has come to an end over whether Robby the chimpanzee should live out his years among people or fellow apes.

Robby, who is in his forties and born in a zoo, has spent most of his life with German circus ringmaster Klaus Köhler and his family.

Animal rights groups have for years called for his rehabilitation among other apes in a specialist sanctuary.

But a court's 2015 decision to move him from the circus has been overturned.

Klaus Köhler of Circus Belly appealed to a higher court in the northern state of Lower Saxony, arguing that that any move would be tantamount to a death sentence for Robby.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46149725

[Jenn8779]

This is such a catch-22 for me. On the one hand I want him to have the chance to be a wild animal but I don't want him to be taken away from everything he's always known because of the stress...