Alamogordo, New Mexico (CNN) -- Shortly after her birth, Moesha
was taken away from her mother and sent to a laboratory for a
life of medical testing. Like the 265 other chimpanzees at the
Coulston Foundation's facility in Alamogordo, New Mexico, Moesha
would be poked and prodded in the name of medical research.
Moesha was one of the lucky ones: She survived. Others were not
so fortunate. Three chimpanzees housed at the Coulston
Foundation were literally cooked to death when their enclosures
heated to 140 degrees Fahrenheit. When federal authorities found
out about the facility's mistreatment of these animals, it lost
its funding and went bankrupt. That's when a team of animal
welfare experts stepped in and changed these chimpanzees' lives
forever. With the help of a $3.7 million grant, the Save the
Chimps organization purchased the facility in 2002 and
transformed it into the world's largest sanctuary for
chimpanzees. It would serve as temporary housing for the chimps
until the organization could create a mo