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...other chimpanzees kept at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico during the 1960s and '70s to study the effects of space travel--like Ham, the first primate in orbit--she never made it off the ground. Instead she did her duty as a breeder, a friendly, easily handled chimp mom who gave birth at least a dozen times before her untimely death...
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...