the chimps of fauna sanctuary by andrew westoll (excerpt)

8/7/2019 The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary by Andrew Westoll (Excerpt)

1/19Andrew Westoll

Leaves us marveling at the ways inwhich chimpanzees are so like us.

Dr. Jane GooDall

a trUe storY of resIl IenCe and reCoVerY


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THE CHIMPS of

FAUNA SANCTUARY

A TRUE STORY RESILIENCE

ad RECOVERY

Ad Wll

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT

B N Y 2011


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oyrght 2011 y Adre Weto

A rght reerved

For ormato aout ermo to reroduce eecto rom th ook,

rte to Permo, Houghto Mf Harcourt Puhg omay,

215 Park Aveue South, Ne York, Ne York 10003.

.hmhook.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataWeto, Adre.

The chm o Faua Sactuary : a true tory o reece ad recovery / Adre Weto.

. cm.

Summary: A jourat ad rmatoogt te the remarkae tory o thrtee chmazee

ad the eoe ho care or them at Faua Sactuary a they recover rom the trauma o year oue a aoratory uject ad ear ho to trut huma ad, more mortaty, ho to e chm

agaProvded y uher.

isbn 978-0-547-32780-8 (hardack)

1. hmazeeoervato. 2. hmazeeBehavor. 3. Ama recue.

4. Wde recovery. 5. Wde reuge. I. Tte.

ql737.p96w379 2011

636.9885dc22 2010049783

Book design by Melissa Lotfy

Floor plan by Mapping Specialists, Ltd.

Prted the Uted State o Amerca

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CONTENTS

Chimphouse Floor Plan x

1. Full-M W 12. Zuaaj, Qubc 15

3. Ou Dqug Dubl 35

4. Blu a Da 51

5. T Cag Hal 65

6. Tb ad Hdlu 82

7. Oa Cucaaca 115

8. Tal Ca 129

9. T Pu Wa 145

10. I Sacua 171

11. Wa Mal 193

12. T Haud 224

13. T Ed a Ea 248

Ad 259

How You Can Help the Chimps 263

Further Reading 265

Acknowledgments 267


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OBSERVATION

AREA FRIDGE

KITCHEN

PLAYROOMPLAYROOM

TO ISLAND ONE(BILLY JOS ISLAND)

TO ISLAND TWO(DONNA RAES ISLAND)

TO ISLANDTHREE

(JEANNIES

ISLAND)

1 2 3 4 5 6

CLINIC

WAKE-UP

ROOM

JEANNIES

ROOM

H

A

L

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W

AY

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A

L

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W

AY

FIRE-

PLACE

APARTMENT

PRIVACY

ROOM

STAIRS

SPIRAL

STAIRCASE

FRONT

DOOR

First Floor

MEZZANINE

PLAYROOM

PLAYROOM

TOPOND

1 2 3 4 5 6

JEANNIES

ROOM

APARTMENT

SPIRAL

STAIRCASE

SKY WALKCHIMP WALKWAY

HUMAN WALKWAY

STAIRS

PRIVACY

ROOM

Second Floor

THE CHIMPHOUSE

INDOOR CHIMP AREAS


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Chapter 1

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Fast-orward more than a decade, then, throw in a career shit

rom scientist to writer, and here I am with Gloria, searching or

a way out o Montreal, struggling to correlate the embarrassing

mental image Id had o her with the real-lie version sitting nextto me.

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Beore I can ask Gloria about this, she directs my attention to



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our right, where an imposing steel cage sits in a thicket o native

sumacs. The cage is about the size o a clothes closet, seven eet

high and fve eet wide. A small metal box with a hole in the top is

a xed to the side. An old truck tire hangs rom rusted chains in-side the cage. The whole thing looks like something out o a medi-

eval dungeon.

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abu a u dv N Y C. Bu aal

d a al, aval a Faua ad d a uc

lg ad d cul ju, a ad lad

lv.

Inside that trailer were seven young chimpanzees. Until that

morning they had been the property o New York University and

had lived at a biomedical research acility called the Laboratory or

Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates, or LEMSIP. As re-

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search subjects, these animals had endured years o pain and depri-

vation as living test tubes or the study o human diseases. Theyd

been torn rom their mothers just days ater birth. Theyd been im-

prisoned in cages, sometimes in solitary confnement. Theyd under-gone blood draws, invasive surgeries, and viral experiments. Some

had been knocked unconscious with dart guns almost every week.

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g l a gv lac al, g lgc.

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cla ug. Havg g a, l g cag-

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d, dla abul d. S d bac

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