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My Time with the Chimps: An Introduction

In the summer of 2009, I spent ten weeks living and working at the Fauna Foundation, a sanctuary for abused and neglected animals just outside Montreal, Canada. Fauna is home to over one hundred...

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My Time with the Chimps: Jethro

One day, Jethro and his buddy Regis sought me out to play. This was the first time a chimpanzee at Fauna showed any interest in having fun with me, and I was very touched. After weeks of wondering if I...

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My Time with the Chimps: Yoko

Yoko has a bit of a reputation. He’s the smallest chimp at Fauna, but he more than makes up for his size with his outsized “personality.” You see, Yoko has bitten off more chimpanzee digits than anyone...

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My Time with the Chimps: Chance

During my stay at Fauna, some of my relationships with the chimps were much more demanding than others. Take my friendship with Chance, who along with Rachel is one of the most disturbed chimpanzees at...

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My Time with the Chimps: Sue Ellen

Sue Ellen has a weakness for large, bearded men. This could be a remnant of her childhood spent in the circus. Gloria suspects that at some point in Sue Ellen’s difficult life, she enjoyed a deep and...

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My Time with the Chimps: Toby

Nobody knows where Toby was born. Some say he was wild-caught in Africa, while others say he was born in a zoo in small-town Quebec. Either way, Toby spent much of the first 24 years of his life at the...

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My Time with the Chimps: Spock & Maya

Every summer, to keep the infuriating cockroach populations under control, the Fauna chimphouse is fumigated. Before this can happen, though, all the chimps need to be coaxed outside, where they will...

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My Time with the Chimps: Petra

Early on in the evolution of Fauna, Gloria received some sage advice from Dr. Jane Goodall when the famed primatologist and activist visited the Fauna sanctuary for the first of many visits. “I was so...

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My Time with the Chimps: Tom

Tom arrived at the Fauna sanctuary in 1997, with a very serious injury on his foot. Just before he’d been scheduled to leave the lab, he’d got into a vicious fight with Billy Jo, during which his foot...

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My Time with the Chimps: Pepper

In the early years, Gloria invited some of the lab technicians who used to work with the chimpanzees to visit Fauna. Although these visits were ostensibly for the good of the chimpanzees—some of them...

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