Primate Sanctuary (IPLS) Investigation Committee Releases Findings
PRIMATE SANCTUARY (IPLS) INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE RELEASES FINDINGS Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh reinstated as the Resident Scientist Des Moines, IA… The Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary (IPLS) reinstated Dr. Savage Rumbaugh to her role as Resident Scientist following an extensive internal investigation regarding allegations about the treatment of the center’s bonobos. In summary, the committee discovered that the ...
Panbanisha’s Birthday is November 17
Today was Panbanisha’s birthday. She was born on November 17, 1985 at the Language Research Center in Atlanta, Georgia, a research facility on 55 acres of forest owned by Georgia State University. She was raised from birth by Dr. Sue Savage Rumbaugh, Dr. Duane Rumbaugh, Liz Rubert-Pugh, and many great and dedicated staff members at ...
Miss You So, by Shane Savage-Rumbaugh
I was in my teens when Panbanisha was a little kid. I was a typically sulky, preoccupied teenager. Somehow that didn’t seem to register with her. Though I did little to deserve or to encourage her affection, she thought I was terrific. She cooked and cleaned with me, rode on my shoulders, and we hung ...
Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary issues Eulogy for Panbanisha
Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary REMEMBERING PANBANISHA A tribute to a priceless and irreplaceable treasure Panbanisha, a beloved and gentle soul, and a member of a famous bonobo family in the US, tragically and suddenly passed away from complications related to pneumonia on the evening of November 6, 2012. She had shown signs of illness for ...
Thank you for coming into this world, Panbanisha!
This message was sent from Sasha at 11:24 pm last night: Dear Panbanisha, I want to sincerely and wholeheartedly thank you for bringing joy, happiness, knowledge, wonder, love, and light into this world. Though I have never met you in person, I have read about you and seen videos of you–playing with the dog (well, ...
Statement about Panbanisha’s Illness and Treatment
Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary INFORMATION ABOUT PANBANISHA’S ILLNESS AND TREATMENT The IPLS bonobos are the only great apes in the state of Iowa and are attended to regularly by local veterinarian, Dr. Julie Gilmore, who by nature as a veterinarian, is trained and licensed to diagnose and treat multiple species. Mammals have much in common ...
Liz Rubert-Pugh remembers Panbanisha
Liz Rubert-Pugh, who spent countless hours working with, playing with, and simply loving Panbanisha since her birth, and who was also with her at the time of her death, wrote this about Panbanisha: “Panbanisha was a most precious treasure. Her spirit was unique and through language, she had advanced into a highly moral being, who ...
Itai Roffman’s eulogy for Panbanisha
“I know you will look after us now as you did in life. The Princess of the bonobo chimpanzees (Homo paniscus). Every one needs to know that you were my close friend and I owe you my life in academia, you showed us all that you are all cavemen, all the chimpanzee tribes in the ...
Dr. Duane Rumbaugh’s eulogy for Panbanisha
Dr. Duane Rumbaugh wrote: “The loss of Panbanisha is beyond words to express our anguish and pain. Panbanisha was, yes, someone special. Neither beast nor bonobo by any standard norm, she had stepped well beyond the boundaries of those domains into one that emerged from her long and loving experiences shaped by her interactions with ...
