The lab chimpanzees are allowed to roam about in broad day light for the very first time since their birth. Check out their reaction to the open air and bright sunlight. The footage is in German, but you can read the translation below about the scene that shows chimpanzees hugging each other, as if finally tasting freedom.

Woman Narrator

They see for the first time in their lives, the sun. After decades in an experiment laboratory, this is the first step of the chimpanzees in to freedom.

Man Narrator

They hugged each other, like they would say they were finally free. And then they laughed. One imagines being locked up for 30 years in an elevator, then to open the door with friends and say “I don’t believe it.” They have only seen people wearing protective clothing; they have never had regular contact. They never learned to climb, because they were brought to the laboratory as babies. Now they can finally get out.

Woman Narrator

Most of the former 38 monkeys have spent the entire lives behind bars. Since 2002, they are now in an Austrian village, slowing being prepared a life in freedom. This moment was for both animal and people equally unique.

Man Narrator

I saw a chimpanzee, who was starring completely fascinated at a butterfly. He knew it, from back when he was a small chimpanzee in the jungle, and now he can see them again.

Woman Narrator

And the monkeys that were born in the laboratory are discovering everything for the first time. The air, the grass, the freedom.