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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
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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.
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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
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AY
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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
FULL-MOON WEEK
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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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Down on the Farm
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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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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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cla ug. Havg g a, l g cag-
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d, dla abul d. S d bac
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