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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 ...
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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.
Vanilla, a 28-year-old chimpanzee, spent many years in a biomedical research facility in New York where animals were housed in cages suspended from the ground. She was rescued by a wildlife ...
Chimpanzees are considered endangered because of habitat destruction, poaching, and infectious diseases. The total population in the wild is estimated at about 170,000 to 300,000, according to the ...
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.
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.
There has only been one albino western lowland gorilla ever found in the wild or captivity. Snowflake the gorilla lived in the Barcelona Zoo for 36 years and he was the world’s only albino gorilla.