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MUSEUM OF THE GREAT APES
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COAST WEEKLY - Dec 30, 2004 http://www.montereycountyweekly.com
Family Resemblances
Great apes exhibit evokes grief.
Ryan Masters.

Last week, the conservation group WWF International announced that pygmy chimpanzees, one of humanity's closest living relatives, have been pushed to the brink of extinction in the war-battered Democratic Republic of Congo. Recent surveys in Africa's Congo basin revealed that perhaps only 10,000 of the primates, also known as bonobos, remain in the wild. Click for full article.

MONTEREYHEARLD - Aug 19, 2004 http://www.montereyherald.com
The eyes speak
Artist Robert Cooper's 'Portraits of the Great Apes' exhibit in Pacific Grove
brings them closer to us.
By Lisa Crawford Watson
Herald Correspondent

For these first few months of life, the warmth and security of his mother was all he had known.
Until now. The tiny chimpanzee, years away from the time he should have been weaned from his mother, had been kidnapped and caged, held for ransom from some patron whose dollars would buy him options with his purchase. Click for full article.

NORTH BAY BOHEMIAN - October 12-18, 2005 http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/10.12.05/index.html
Prehensile Tales
On intelligent design, Bigfoot, Bob Cooper and our nearest ancestors
By Matt Pamatmat

The religious right's recent move to advance the theory of intelligent design, a fancy way of saying "creationism," demonstrates that, left or right, we humans are still deeply fascinated by our closest relatives, the great apes. One camp is comfortable with the fact that we descended from the trees and evolved into the iPod-wearing, Starbucks-drinking curious creatures we are today; the other camp feels strongly threatened by the theory of evolution for the giant monkey wrench it throws into the entire machinery of Judeo-Christian theology and explanation. Click for full article