{"id":63977,"date":"2012-10-18T17:43:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T20:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=63977"},"modified":"2012-12-18T17:55:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T19:55:42","slug":"suspicion-of-mistreatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/suspicion-of-mistreatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspicion of mistreatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_63980\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63980\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/012_013_Estrategias_200-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/012_013_Estrategias_200-2.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/012_013_Estrategias_200-2-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/012_013_Estrategias_200-2-250x188.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">GREATAPETRUST<\/span><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Savage-Rumbaugh with the bonobo Kanzi: forced leave during the investigation<span class=\"media-credits\">GREATAPETRUST<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>A well-known primate sanctuary in the state of Iowa, the Great Ape Trust, is mired in a crisis.\u00a0 According to the blog <em>Science Insider<\/em> in the journal <em>Science<\/em>, an internal investigation has been launched into accusations that its director, primatologist and psychologist\u00a0 Susan Savage-Rumbaugh was mistreating the animals.\u00a0 The sanctuary is home to primates like the bonobo chimpanzee Kanzi, who was taught to communicate by using a symbol keyboard and is able to understand over 3,000 spoken words.\u00a0 The institution\u2019s management committee placed Savage-Rumbaugh on leave, allowing her only supervised visits to the bonobos.\u00a0 The\u00a0 Great Ape Trust was established in 2002 thanks to a US$ 4 million donation from businessman Ted Townsend, as a research center for primate cognition and communications.\u00a0 The money dried up in 2011 and the committee decided to suspend research activities, but a US$ 50,000 donation allowed work to continue.\u00a0 Ten months ago, the management committee received the first reports of mistreatment, which it revealed.\u00a0 In September, employees and former caretakers of the animals took the complaints public.\u00a0 Savage-Rumbaugh defended herself in a video, telling her accusers, \u201cyou don\u2019t know the real situation at the sanctuary,\u201d and proposing that a camera be hung around her neck 24 hours a day, so that she could be monitored.\u00a0 Ethics specialist Nancy Howell is leading the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Savage-Rumbaugh with the bonobo Kanzi: forced leave during the investigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suspicion of mistreatment","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[209,230],"coauthors":[93],"class_list":["post-63977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies","tag-biology","tag-ethics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63977"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=63977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}