Word: chimp
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Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra - Principal 2nd violin; Thesis Research at the Kibale Chimp Project in Uganda, Africa; OUTREACH Co-Director; AIDS research; Graphics Editor for the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra...
That has not stopped Ronald Desrosiers, a professor of microbiology at Harvard Medical School, from championing the live-virus approach. A year after injecting a handful of chimpanzees with a solution of weakened HIV, Desrosiers exposed them to the full-strength virus. Every chimp had an immune response strong enough to contain the killer virus--at least for a while...
...batch free and make them feel welcome to more, at a price. Cunanan had an astonishing range of knowledge: of the way the U.S. military command is structured--and of the hierarchy of chimpanzees. Zeeland recalls that Cunanan would jokingly refer to his friend Trail, in the lingo of chimp studies, as an "alpha male," adding that subordinate chimps paid homage to alpha males by displaying their genitals. He would then proceed to do so, remaining fully clothed. It was Trail, the alpha male, who would be bludgeoned to death with a claw hammer in the apartment of Cunanan...
...Like chimps," said Wrangham, "we are ourselves a chimeric species. You can look in the face of a chimp and see both hostility and sympathy...
...primatologists the bonobo did not exist at all until 1928, when researchers first noticed that the chimpanzee-like animal they had long been calling a pygmy chimp was in fact an entirely separate species. In the decades that followed, the physical differences between the newly recognized bonobo and its larger cousin were thought to be all that distinguished them. Then, in the 1970s, Japanese primatologist Takayoshi Kano began observing bonobos in the wild and noticed a key difference: in the bonobo culture, unlike the chimp or human culture, males were not the dominant gender...