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Many of us who have worked with great apes have had experiences of profound and long-lasting impact. Part of that impact one suspects, has to do with moments in which the line between our species and theirs becomes blurred, sometimes unsettling but often astonishingly liberating. Indeed, in 1996, at the International Primatology Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, a 4-hr session on recollection of “epiphanies” with apes was held to explore how these special events had shaped decisions, careers, attitudes, and research. The room was charged with memories and emotion. Speaker after speaker “confessed” their personal ties with apes and admitted to the ethical quandary and deliberations such feeling imposed on thoughts and research about animals.
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Kaplan, G., Rogers, L. (2004). Epilogue. In: Rogers, L.J., Kaplan, G. (eds) Comparative Vertebrate Cognition. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8913-0_11
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