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	Oliver - Is He An Ape?
		A scientific mystery for years, Oliver surfaced in the early 1970s when he was acquired by a man and woman whose dog, chimp, pony and pig acts won them performances on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and a t venues such as New York City's Radio City Music Hall.
		Oliver's blood sample, Ledbetter said, showed 48 chromosomes, proof he was not a human-chimp hybrid.
		Swett, however, believes Oliver may be an ape hybrid, such as a cross between a chimpanzee and a gorilla or a chimpanzee and pygmy chimp.
	robotics.stanford.edu /~oli/oliver.html (693 words)

	The Humanzee That Wasn't
		Chimp or "Humanzee," Oliver was a remarkable, upright walking chimp who appeared to prefer living and behaving as a human being than a chimpanzee for the better part of his life.
		Oliver surfaced in the early 1970s, when he was acquired as a baby by trainers Frank and Janet Burger whose dog, chimp, pony and pig acts were once regularly featured on the Ed Sullivan Show, at Radio City Music Hall, and once even by dancer Gene Kelly.
		Oliver has been in and out of the media spotlight (including Time magazine and several major newspapers) since the early 1970s, as different owners promoted his bipedal locomotion and shaved head as evidence that he was a cryptic, bipedal African man ape.
	www.rense.com /general67/oliver.htm (2357 words)

	Oliver's No Gene Genie (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Oliver first came to widespread public attention in 1976, when newspapers and magazines worldwide became interested in the strange 'chimpanzee' that New York attorney Michael Miller bought off a travelling animal-act owner called Frank Burger, allegedly for $10,000.
		Oliver was transferred to the Wild Animal Training Center at Riverside, California, owned by Ken Decroo, but he was allegedly sold by Decroo in 1985.
		Moreover, when they sequenced a specific portion (312 bp region) of the D-loop region of Oliver's mitochondrial DNA they discovered that its sequence corresponded very closely indeed with that of the Central African subspecies of common chimpanzee; the closest correspondence of all was with a chimp specimen from Gabon in Central-West Africa.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/120_oliver.shtml (1283 words)

	Oliver (chimpanzee) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oliver's trip coincided with a concert promotion of the rock 'n roll group The Monkees and he was presented on Japanese television shows with Micky Dolenz spouting inaccurate scientific observations.
		These studies were performed in 1996 and revealed that Oliver had forty-eight, not forty-seven, chromosomes, thus disproving the earlier claim and confirming that he had a normal chromosome count for a chimpanzee.
		Oliver's mitochondrial DNA sequence corresponded very closely with that of the Central African subspecies of common chimpanzee; the closest correspondence of all was with a chimp specimen from Gabon in Central-West Africa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_the_chimp (959 words)

	Oliver - Is He An Ape?
		A scientific mystery for years, Oliver surfaced in the early 1970s when he was acquired by a man and woman whose dog, chimp, pony and pig acts won them performances on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and a t venues such as New York City's Radio City Music Hall.
		Oliver's blood sample, Ledbetter said, showed 48 chromosomes, proof he was not a human-chimp hybrid.
		Swett, however, believes Oliver may be an ape hybrid, such as a cross between a chimpanzee and a gorilla or a chimpanzee and pygmy chimp.
	ai.stanford.edu /users/oli/oliver.html (693 words)

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	Oliver Genetic Testing (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Oliver later was owned by a series of West Coast animal trainers who exhibited him as a freak, and put him in television shows and commercials.
		All that is certain about Oliver, who arrived at the Primarily Primates sanctuary in Boerne last summer after seven years in a research laboratory, is that he is not a normal chimp in either appearance or temperament.
		Swett said Oliver could prove to be a hybrid between common and pygmy chimps, a mutant chimp or an entirely new race of chimp.
	www.bigfootencounters.com /creatures/oliverabilene.htm (950 words)

	Gorilla Haven Welcomes Oliver
		Oliver is unique in many ways, but his real claim to fame is the fact that he is totally deaf, the reason for which no one seems to know for sure.
		Oliver’s mom, Tunuka was born in the wild in 1963 (making her Joe’s age), and now lives at the Louisville Zoo.
		Oliver had been given a valium to help him relax a bit on the journey, but adrenalin is stronger than valium and in a young silverback like Oliver, this isn’t surprising.
	www.gorilla-haven.org /ghwelcomeoliver.htm (3658 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Oliver (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Oliver was elected to the provincial council in 1746 and later served as secretary of the province.
		He was the son of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Amelia Lee Jackson, daughter of a Massachusetts supreme court justice.
		Is Oliver the chimp half-human He smoked cigars, drank whisky and had an eye for the ladies.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Oliver&StartAt=11 (930 words)

	Oliver and Friends
		Oliver came to Primarily Primates in 1995 as one of 12 chimps donated by the Buckshire Corporation, a Pennsylvania-based research facility.
		Thus began Oliver's odyssey from one owner to another, from stints as a carnival freak and zoo curiosity, to seven years of confinement in a 5x7x5 lab cage.
		Oliver's next-door neighbors are a group of chimps from New York University.
	www.texas-ec.org /publications/texascooppower/archive/104worms.aspx (1662 words)

	Humanzee
		Among the non-Bestiality related explanations for Oliver's freakish characteristics were mutation, spontaneous evolution and hybridization with another form of ape (such as the also-human-like bonobo, which is conveniently a sex-crazed lunatic).
		Oliver probably didn't see the bright side of this, as he was confined for seven years in a 5-by-7 cage (worse than even Camp X-Ray), until his muscles atrophied for lack of ability to move.
		Oliver was retired from the lab in 1996 and sent to a chimp retirement home.
	www.rotten.com /library/cryptozoology/humanzee (953 words)

	the Look Machine -- living the dream: Oliver the Humanzee?
		Oliver's face looked a little more human, he only walked upright, liked to mix drinks and smoke cigars, and preferred the company of humans to chimps.
		If you watche the show they said in China there was a pregnant female chimp with inseminated human sperm and was 3 mo. pregnant when the place was abandoned and she died of neglect.
		Months later I was to learn that Oliver had attacked her sexually, and that their union had in fact resulted in pregnancy.
	www.thelookmachine.com /weblog/2005/05/oliver-humanzee.html (1921 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - Features - One of greatest mysteries to walk the earth
		Oliver’s story began in the jungle of the Congo where he was captured as a baby in 1960 and taken to the United States.
		Then in the late 80s, Oliver was passed to a cosmetic and scientific experimentation laboratory in Pennsylvania and for the next seven years was confined to a 5ft by 5ft cage.
		In a further twist in the tale, Oliver was released from his cage in 1996 when Wally Swett, a former zoo keeper and founder of the Primarily Primates animal sanctuary in San Antonio, Texas, was spearheading the first negotiated "retirement" of lab animals.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=279772003 (1618 words)

	Chimp seems unique, but not a missing link (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A scientific mystery for 25 years, Oliver surfaced in the early 1970s when he was acquired by a man and woman whose dog, chimp, pony and pig acts won them performances on The Ed Sullivan Show and at venues such as New York City's Radio City Music Hall.
		Finally, Oliver was sold when he began to express sexual interest in his female owner and other women.
		Anthropologists, swayed in part by Oliver's small head, pronounced nose and disdain for using his all-fours also held out the possibility that Oliver was part human.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/metropolitan/97/01/12/oliver.2-0.html (694 words)

	evolgen archive: Hooray for Humanzee
		Also, the difference in chromosome number (humans have 23 pairs, chimps have 24 pairs) is not all that important because it results from a fusion of two chromosomes along the human lineage; both species have equivalent amounts of genomic information, it’s just arranged slightly different.
		Oliver had many behaviors that seemed more human than chimp, leading some people to believe he was either the product of a human-chimp hybridization event or some evolutionary missing link.
		Oliver represents a good piece of evidence for the role of developmental plasticity in anatomical evolution -- one could imagine that his upright stance could have influenced other members of his community, thereby changing the selective pressures on the morphology of the population.
	evolgen.blogspot.com /2005/12/hooray-for-humanzee.html (648 words)

	Reporter OnLine
		Oliver was acquired as a baby in the early 1970s by trainers Frank and Janet Burger.
		Oliver later was owned by a series of West Coast animal trainers who exhibited him as a freak, and put him in television shows and commercials.
		All that is certain about Oliver, who arrived at the Primarily Primates sanctuary in Boerne last summer after seven years in a research laboratory, is that he is not a normal chimp in either appearance or temperament.
	www.texnews.com /news/chimp012697.html (955 words)

	The Chimpanzee Collaboratory
		Chimps are spilling forth now from all quadrants of our keeping— research labs, traveling zoos, movie and TV studios, backyard pens—and an international network of sanctuaries, in Canada, Europe, Africa and South America, along with the United States, has sprung up to accommodate them.
		Chimp Haven’s 200 acres are situated within the grounds of the park, which assures the chimps a relatively good buffer from human encroachment.
		Chimp Haven was awarded the contract to construct and maintain the government’s new chimpanzee-sanctuary system in September 2002, and when a group of local developers and the Caddo Parish Commission offered up 200 acres of parish parkland, all the pieces for constructing the flagship of that system were in place.
	www.chimpcollaboratory.org /news/planet.asp (6521 words)

	Boing Boing: Oliver the Humanzee
		Though he was sent to Japan in a normal chimpanzee cage as cargo, Oliver was depicted as flying in the passenger cabin.
		Oliver's trip coincided with a concert promotion of the rock 'n roll group The Monkees and he was presented on Japanese television shows with Micky Dolenz spouting inaccurate scientific observations.
		Some anthropologists observing Oliver's head, nose, ears, and preference for bipedal walking asserted the possibility that the chimp was a hybrid.
	www.boingboing.net /2006/08/21/oliver_the_humanzee.html (413 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for oliver
		Oliver grew up in New Orleans and established himself as the city's preeminent cornetist, coleading a band with trombonist Kid Ory (1886–1973) before moving to...
		Oliver was a worthy follower of Hilliard as miniature painter to Elizabeth's court.
		He was the driving force in the revolutionary opposition to Charles I in the English Civil War, and was the leader of the Parliamentary forces (or Roundheads), winning decisive battles at Marston Moor and Naseby.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=oliver (914 words)

	Oliver's Travels
		The chimps on the truck had come from a Pennsylvania research company called the Buckshire Corporation, and their delivery to Primarily Primates represented one of the first attempts anywhere to retire chimps to a sanctuary after they've been used in medical experiments.
		Oliver became a celebrity in January of 1976, when he was approximately sixteen years old.
		He did not get along with other chimps, and separation from his human companions was said to bring him to tears.
	www.theatlantic.com /doc/prem/200310/shreeve (719 words)

	Chimp Haven : Chimp Haven News - Read News Article
		Nicknamed "Woody" by the staff, he had been a resident at Chimp Haven since April 2005 and one of the original 12 C.A.R.E. chimpanzees.
		Even though Woody had some medical problems that made walking difficult for him, he was recently introduced to a new social group that included Grandma, Chimp Haven's oldest chimpanzee at 54-years old, Les, Brent, Bella and Lyons.
		After the introductions, Woody was able to experience one of the outdoor ¼-acre play yards and walk in the grass for the first time in years.
	www.chimphaven.org /view-news.cfm?news_id=105 (381 words)

	Oliver the Chimp...missing link...Humanzee - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
		Oliver was one of the most closely studied chimpanzees in history, in large part because of his odd appearance and behavior.
		Oliver was born in the African Congo where he was captured in the early 1970s and sold with a dozen other chimps to Frank and Janet Burger, animal trainers from South Africa.
		Yeah there was a show on TV not too long ago talking about Oliver and that he was just a normal chimp, blood test proved that and the show was on discovery so its a credible channel but yeah he was just a normal chimp that acted human nothing more.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=63724 (1578 words)

	Oliver - Humanzee
		Oliver was doing fine until he hit adolescence.
		Oliver does have 48 chromosomes (24 pairs) the same as a chimpanzee, which was different than a claim made by a earlier scientist in China, whom stated that Oliver had 47, one less than a chimp, and one more than a human.
		Moreover, they sequenced Oliver's mitochondrial DNA and discovered that its sequence corresponded very closely with that of the Central African subspecies of common chimpanzee; the closest correspondence of all was with a chimp specimen from Gabon in Central-West Africa.
	members.tripod.com /world_freedom/id8.html (604 words)

	Oliver(warning:this is sad) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Oliver (at least according to all accounts I was able to find) was able to learn a great deal about his surroundings.
		A more disgusting thought is that maybe this chimp was punished for walking on all fours, or even brachiation, and rewarded for standing and walking upright.
		It is obvious from the chimps history or known interactions with humans, this chimp was seriously exploited and abused.
	p090.ezboard.com /fbooktalkfrm78.showMessage?topicID=149.topic (2788 words)

	MySA.com: Metro \| State
		At one time, Primarily Primates was a sanctuary for some of America's greatest pioneers in science: chimps subjected to sleep deprivation, arthritis studies or brain tests, all part of experiments touted for the good of humankind.
		Oliver, the chimp that walked upright and was once mistakenly earmarked as the evolutionary missing link, still lives here.
		Sanctuaries are often the only repositories for injured or older animals or animals no longer useful in experiments, or because the zoos where they were raised are overcrowded.
	www.mysanantonio.com /news/metro/stories/MYSA101606.01A.primatefolo.3162cc3.html (869 words)

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		Academic institutions have a responsibility to enhance public awareness of the research and accomplishments that emerge from a scientific perspective that is empirically grounded.
		"Oliver" is a habitually bipedal ape that has captured the imagination of both laypeople and scientists.
		After years of lively debate, Oliver's DNA was sampled to settle the issue and perhaps provide us with a breathing version of the missing link.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/daegling/research/skeptical.html (260 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: News: Famous Long Ago: Legendary "Humanzee" Oliver, his friends, and the bitter fight over animal ...
		The OSU chimps were part of the longest running cognitive research study of its kind, under the direction of psychology professor Sally Boysen (herself the focus of yet another animal melodrama with legal repercussions), for which funding had finally dried up.
		Thirty Air Force chimps, once part of the long-running research into the effects of space travel on humans, made it to PPI, and, of course, the Buckshire 12 were also given refuge – including their most famous member, Oliver.
		For Tello, the dismissal of the OSU chimp lawsuit was a relief because he believes all the allegations were trumped up or misleading – for example, he said, the chimp housed alone was overaggressive, a fact OSU failed to mention in the chimp profiles provided to PPI.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:429272 (4888 words)

	glen's Forum - A Bravenet.com Forum
		Oliver was born in the wild and was raised in a family in America.
		It was thought that Oliver was a human and chimp, a hybrid.
		Later research in America showed that Oliver had 48 chromosomes, in fact he is a chimp.
	pub42.bravenet.com /forum/3564858932/show/311154 (254 words)

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