Silent Partners

by Eugene Linden

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345342348
• ISBN13: 9780345342348
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Horrifying Look at a Shameful Legacy

Linden's report is one of the most disturbing books I've ever read. It reveals how some of the superstars of the ape language experiments of the '70s, as well as several lesser-known primate research subjects, were callously discarded after the funding (and subsequently interest) dried up. With a few happy exceptions, their lives are now miserable -- or over.It's as bad as the chimps from the space program, who after years of careful training were sold to laboratories for medical experiments. Most of Linden's subjects -- after being reared in human company and taught to use sign language or symbol-boards -- were sold to laboratories, placed in zoos, or attempted to return to the wild (with disasterous results).The image of a despondent gorilla in a dank concrete zoo cage, signing desperately to passers-by "get me out, get me out!" will haunt me forever.