NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. sanctuary for retired federal research chimpanzees is about to nearly double its population when it receives 113 new primates from a Louisiana lab that no longer has a National Institutes of Health contract to conduct animal research.

NIH originally planned to send only 10 of the chimps currently housed at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Center in New Iberia to Chimp Haven, a sanctuary in Keithville, La., near Shreveport, that currently harbors 121 animals.