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...nearest neighbor on the tree of life, but neither has found the neighborhood entirely respectable. For man, that hairy presence stands just too close for comfort; outside the chimp cage at the zoo, the human observer begins to wonder uneasily who is amusing whom. In this illustrated primer of primate lore by Desmond Morris, curator of mammals at the London Zoo, and his wife Ramona, the sympathy of the authors is placed solidly behind the bars...
There, Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek and his colleagues made an extract of the brain material and injected it into the brains of monkeys and a two-year-old chimpanzee named Georgette. Nothing happened to the monkeys, and for 20 months Georgette kept on growing like a normal chimp. Then, last May, Georgette became apathetic and lethargic. Her lower lip drooped, and she shivered at the slightest chill. Soon, she was staggering and stumbling as she walked; if she reached for a banana, she missed it. When she could hardly move her limbs and screamed at the gentlest touch, the researchers...
...exclaim about the charms of the carioca moças, Mike could only grunt about the weather. Next morning the papers smirkingly conjectured, "Maybe Mike Henry doesn't like women." Then, even faithful chimpanzee Cheetah turned on him. Filming a scene where they were supposed to kiss, the chimp suddenly sank his teeth into Mike. It took 18 stitches to reattach Tarzan's jaw, and three days and nights of "monkey fever" delirium before he regained consciousness...
Turn to the Chimp. Eventually, the surgeons and physicians decided that unless they were willing to take the question of life or death in their own hands and shut off the artificial breathing of a potential donor, it was "exceedingly unlikely" that such a man would die at just the right time, while a waiting heart patient was being kept alive on the heart-lung machine...
When they finally got a patient unquestionably in need of a heart transplant, they turned to the chimpanzee as a source. The chimp's heart proved too small for the patient, who was a big man, and the transplant failed after a couple of hours. The Mississippi doctors say they learned enough about the surgical techniques involved to convince them that "this operation may some day add years of life to many patients." But the process of learning has only pointed up the problems that are still far from solution-the ethical questions and the matter of timing...