Word: chimp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Monkey King," who for 45 years imported wild animals to the U.S.; in Bound Brook, NJ. A flamboyant showman, Trefflich built a million-dollar-a-year business selling exotic creatures from his four-story Lower Manhattan menagerie to scientists, moviemakers and carnival hucksters. Among his sales: Tarzan's chimp Cheetah and the monkeys used in breakthrough Rh (rhesus) factor research. Occasionally a restless snake would escape from Trerflich's store; once 100 monkeys created harmless havoc on Wall Street and made the headlines. Trefflich claimed the escape was accidental; skeptics abounded...
Researchers who train chimps in sign language and the manipulation of word symbols called lexigrams have often found this to be true. A full-grown chimpanzee has great strength and must be respected. Says one scientist: "If I get into an argument with Billy or Washoe or some of the other chimps, I try to change the subject." Earlier books on the subject report that some simian students are eager to join the human club. A female chimp placed a photo of herself in a pile with Eleanor Roosevelt but a snapshot of her own father with the four-legged...
...sure? As an experienced journalist who has contributed to The New Yorker for more than 50 years, Hahn balances her enthusiasms for the unknown with a reverence for facts and, when necessary, the lack of them. "Though total silence still holds between the two species," she writes of chimps and men, "the linguistic exchanges now happening will serve to underscore the close biological relationship between the two." Still, like the upwardly mobile chimp who thought she was human, there are humans who seem more willing to believe in the possibility of communication with superior extraterrestrials than in a probability...
...fact, man and chimp exhibit more genetic similarity than horse and zebra or sheep and goat," Devore said...
...work to bring children into the world, they are in the position of sellers in a scarce market, and men must line up to buy. This principle explains the natural evolution of what DeVore and his colleague Joseph Popp have called "prostitution behavior" in higher species. A female chimp in estrus will use a sexual come-on to get more than her share of food. Even a very dominant male cannot afford to alienate the most precious of all resources-a willing female. Sociobiology also explains why, in most human societies, men are older than their mates: older...