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Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) is a species of retrovirus that cause persistent infections in at least 45 species of non-human primates. [1] [2] Based on analysis of strains found in four species of monkeys from Bioko Island, which was isolated from the mainland by rising sea levels about 11,000 years ago, it has been concluded that SIV has been present in monkeys and apes for at least ...
According to a now-discredited hypothesis, the AIDS pandemic originated from live polio vaccines prepared in chimpanzee tissue cultures, accidentally contaminated with simian immunodeficiency virus and then administered to up to one million Africans between 1957 and 1960 in experimental mass vaccination campaigns.
J. Fred Muggs (born March 14, 1952) is a chimpanzee born in the African colony of French Cameroon that forms part of modern-day Cameroon.Brought to New York City before his first birthday, he was bought by two former NBC pages and eventually appeared on a host of television shows on that network including NBC's Today Show where he served as mascot from 1953 to 1957.
Visitors at Valencia's Bioparc Zoo in Spain were stunned when they noticed a chimpanzee carrying around a deceased baby chimp. The grieving mother is Natalia who gave birth to the baby about 3 ...
HBO's "Chimp Crazy," a docuseries premiering Sunday from "Tiger King" director Eric Goode, is less about the animals in question than the people who own them.
Moving footage shows the moment a chimpanzee who was used for laboratory research sees the sky for the first time. Vanilla, a 28-year-old chimpanzee, spent many years in a biomedical research ...
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Some troublemaking chimpanzees at the Kansas City Zoo were up to no good Thursday. The "Today" show has more on their funny business. 'One of the chimps broke off a six-foot tree limb inside his ...