Well, when her funding was cut, she chained herself to the laboratory doors (they took away her keys earlier) and gave a lot of visibility to what was going on.
Of course, "the man" ended up winning and her chimps were transported away from OSU.
Apparently once the chimps got to their final destination, the keepers "accidentally" KILLED the alpha male. They sedated him to death!!
Recounting dead OSU chimp's last day
At this point, the animals were sedated so the staff could transfer them safely out of the cages, also not unusual, he added. They started sedation procedures with Kermit, since he is one of the alpha males, weighing close to 300 pounds. After the initial dosage did not sedate Kermit, procedures were followed to give incremental dosages to start the transfer.
"At some point, they found he wasn't breathing, so they immediately started CPR," Holland said. "They continued CPR until they realized he had no heartbeat and no respiration, so he was dead."
I wonder how you give chimp CPR. The image of someone giving CPR to a 300 pound chimp sorta drives home the idea that chimps are only marginally different from humans. It's kinda creepy.
So that's a sad story.
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A 300 pound chimp? That doesn't sound right...
Gorilla, maybe?
Actually, that brings up an interesting point.
Chimps aren't *THAT* big. I mean, compared to a human being, chimps aren't THAT big. However, apparently this large chimp was 300 pounds.
Gorillas ARE very big. So I gotta imagine that even an average-sized gorilla will be at LEAST 300 pounds if not a lot more.
So when people talk about a "300 pound gorilla," does that really mean a whole lot? Might it be better to revise that number a little upward?
Thanks for the comments.
It's worth noting that it wasn't OSU that killed the chimp -- it was the group that received the chimps from transportation.
I'm sure that they didn't actually try to kill the chimp. It's just too bad that this had to happen. It's especially sad because the OSU researcher suspected something like this would have happened. It's just too bad that more care wasn't given to these particular chimps... but I guess that wouldn't be fair either.
In general, the whole chimp situation is somewhat sad. If there were any animals that deserved a little bit of humanity, you would think these would be them.
Please visit www.kermitscommunity.com for information about the former OSU primates.
Thanks for the link to Kermit's Community at http://www.kermitscommunity.com/. It's interesting to read about these great apes.
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