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  • From: Kiki Yablon <kyablon AT chicagoreader.com>
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  • Subject: [monkeywire] This week on This American Life: retirement homes for chimps
  • Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:31:41 -0600

to air March 6
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=350

Human Resources
The true story of little-known rooms in the New York City Board of Education building. Teachers are told to report there instead of their classrooms. No reason is usually given. When they arrive, they find they've been put on some kind of probationary status, and they must report every day until the matter is cleared up. They call it the Rubber Room. Average length of stay? Months, sometimes years. Plus other stories of the uneasy interaction between humans and their institutions. . . .

Act Three. Almost Human Resources.

Reporter Charles Siebert talks with Ira about retirement homes for Chimpanzees. Yes, retirement homes for Chimpanzees. There are thousands of aging chimps in the US: retired chimp actors, ex-research subjects, abandoned pets. They can't be put back in the wild since they don't know how to survive there. Charles Siebert visited many of the facilities where they're housed, often in rooms, with TV's and 3 meals a day. He's writing a book about his experiences called Humanzee. (11 minutes)

Song: "Monkey in a Zoo," Daniel Johnston



  • [monkeywire] This week on This American Life: retirement homes for chimps, Kiki Yablon, 03/04/2009

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