Hill worked with Chuck and Judy before they left the zoo. In the wild, chimps rarely live beyond 40 those in captivity occasionally make it to 60. “S he was pushing the envelope as far as age,” Hill said. “John said she was very old.”Īccording to Louise Hill, curator of the Virginia Zoological Gardens, the zoo’s files show Judy was born around 1965. “We have to assume she passed away sometime within the last two years while John was not working here, ” Slater said. One of her caretakers told her the chimp was still there two years ago when he left but was not there when he returned to help the new management. She checked the reserve’s records and could find no files on Judy. Lynne Slater, the facility’s interim administrative director, hails from Newport News and remembers seeing Chuck and Judy at the zoo in Norfolk. T here is no mention on the site of Judy.
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The new operators have been working to unravel years of apparent neglect, and have a Web site, to help animal lovers learn about some of the facility’s most famous inhabitants.įor example, Oliver was a jet-setting celebrity fixture on “The Ed Sullivan Show” whose almost- human features earned him the nickname “Humanzee.” Winston starred as the smoking chimp in the Matthew Broderick movie “Project X.” The state of Texas intervened, taking the facility away from its founder a couple of months ago and putting it under receivership. Primarily Primates, once the premier such facility in the country, had gone to seed, with too many animals for its rundown facilities and too few workers. She spent the last half of her life at the refuge.Īt least, that’s the best guess from the reserve’s current operator. E-Pilot Evening Edition Home Page Close Menu
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