A Cuban chimpanzee.

Creating a Chimpanzee Community **

The following narrative by Robert M. Yerkes of his creation of the famous colony of chimpanzees at Orange Park, Florida, has been extracted by his daughter, Roberta W. Yerkes, from an extensive autobiographical manuscript. Readers of this selective account might think Professor Yerkes a man of one idea. So he was, for from 1916 to the end of his life, a period of 40 years, he thought, planned, ...

Cuban Clave Rhythms

Several geometric, graph theoretical and combinatorial techniques useful for the teaching, analysis, generation and automated recognition of rhythms are proposed and investigated. The techniques are illustrated on the six fundamental 4/4 time clave and bell rhythm timelines most frequently used in African, Brazilian and Cuban music. It was found that Pressing's measure of rhythm complexity agre...

Cuban efforts bolstered

bird flu but were not diagnosed because their symptoms were too mild. The findings suggest some populations have developed natural resistance to the virus. The study of more than 45,000 people in Vietnam, reveals that up to 750 people are likely to have become infected with the strain after handling sick birds. Anna Thorson, who led the study, said the real figure potentially extended into thou...

Phylogenetic analysis of a new chimpanzee lentivirus SIVcpz-gab2 from a wild-captured chimpanzee from Gabon.

OF A TOTAL OF 50 chimpanzees wild-captured in different O areas of the tropical iain forest in Gabon, two were found to be positive for HIV-1 antibodies.’ From one chimpanzee a lentivirus, sIv,z,ab, was isolated. As a result of virological and molecular studies it was classified as an HIV-l-related nonhuman Subsequently, another chimpanzee lentivhs, SIVEpz-mo has been isolated from a wild-captu...

Affirmative action, Cuban style.