Uganda, Feb. 25 -- Authorities at Ngamba Chimpanzee Sanctuary are considering vasectomy for male chimps in order to reduce their growing population following failure of various family planning methods.

"We are considering two options; one is vasectomy for our male chimps, but the vasectomy for animals currently is still irreversible. We know that in humans there has been successful reversible contraception that is still experimental right now, but is something that's new and we haven't tried it in Apes. That's an avenue we shall explore later because currently it would mean that if we do vasectomy in our male chimps, then they will never be able to induce conception in females which isn't necessarily ideal,'' said Dr Joshua Rukundo, the ...