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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.
Tonka, the chimpanzee at the center of the HBO docuseries Chimp Crazy, is far removed from the drama included in the show today.. The 32-year-old primate first rose to fame in the 90s, when, as a ...
Project Chimps is a privately funded 501(c)(3) nonprofit animal sanctuary for chimpanzees formerly used in research. It will eventually house 200 chimpanzees on an over 230 acre property in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Morganton, Georgia. [1] Project Chimps is accredited by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries.
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The oldest male chimpanzee living in an accredited North American zoo died Saturday at the San Francisco Zoo & Gardens. The chimpanzee, named Cobby, had been a hand-reared performing chimpanzee ...
The Emory National Primate Research Center (formerly known as Yerkes National Primate Research Center) [1] located in Atlanta, Georgia, owned by Emory University, [2] is a center of biomedical and behavioral research, is dedicated to improving human and animal health, and is the oldest of seven National Primate Research Centers partially funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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 ...