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Three of Britain's most prominent scientists backed a campaign yesterday to end the use of chimpanzees in medical experiments. Jane Goodall, Sir David Attenborough and Desmond Morris are supporting calls for the last research centre in Europe to experiment on apes to be closed and the suffering to man'sclosely related primate to be stopped. Ms Goodall, who 40 years ago pioneered the study of the complex social behaviour of chimpanzees in the wild, said yesterday it was immoral and inhumane for Britain and other members of the European Union to continue to support the Biomedical Primate Research Centre in the Netherlands. The centre houses more than 100 chimpanzees as part of a collection of about1,500 primates that are used in a variety of experiments to investigate vaccines and drugs developed to fight diseases ranging from Aids and hepatitis to malaria and other tropical parasites. About two thirds of the research centre's funding comes from grants from the Dutch government and the European Union, with private industry paying the balance. Although research institutes cannot experiment onchimpanzees in Britain, some sub-contract work to the Biomedical Primate Research Centre. Ms Goodall, one of the most powerful voices in primatology, said the higher intelligence and emotional nature of chimpanzees, which she equated to that of a two-year old child, sets them apart from non-primate research animals, making it untenable for scientists to use them in experiments no matter howimportant those were deemed for human medicine. "Emotions are hard to study. Nevertheless, everybody who has worked with chimps has no doubt that they are capable of emotions," said Ms Goodall, who has visited the Dutch research centre in the town of Rijswijk. "You can imagine what it was like for me to go into a medical research laboratory and look into the eyes of a male who had been born in thewild. The conditions they are kept in are totally, ethically and morally unacceptable," she said. Sir David Attenborough, who has probably done more than anyone to bring wild animals closer to the British public, is also supporting the Coalition to End Experiments on Chimpanzees in Europe (Ceece), an umbrella organisation of animal groups set up to coordinate the campaign against the public funding ofthe Rijswijk centre. "I am in favour of a European ban on the use of apes in invasive medical research. I have seen footage of the conditions inside the centre located at Rijswijk and am appalled by it. I do not believe that the Biomedical Primate Research Centre, or any other laboratory keeping primates, should be entitled to do so any longer," Sir David said. Janie Reynolds, who chairs Ceeceand has visited Rijswijk twice, says the chimps are housed in cramped cages surrounded on all sides by iron bars with little or no intellectual stimulation. Young chimps are separated from their mothers and some animals have been kept in solitary confinement for many years after experiments in which they were injected with infectious viruses. The British Government banned the use of chimps in...