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I have covered the plight of Oliver and Primarily Primates here on Cryptomundo.
It looks like the case may soon be settled.
Settlement looming for Primarily Primates
The Texas Attorney General wants to settle litigation over San Antonio’s Primarily Primates sanctuary by returning the facility to a reformed board of directors and permanently removing the man who founded [...]

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With all the talk about pseudo-skeptiks here on Cryptomundo as of late, I thought that I would republish this post.
From January 18, 2006
Answering the Bigfoot Skeptics
Published on LiveScience.com today is an article written by a Cryptomundo commenter, Benjamin Radford, editor of the Skeptical Inquirer, entitled, “Rare Woodpecker Search Sheds Light on Bigfoot.” Going to the [...]

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It’s only been five years, but it seems like yesterday and yet long ago. As Valentine’s Day comes rushing closer in 2007, a moment to recall Grover, the Ph. D. of Sasquatch…from my overview I wrote soon after he passed away in 2002.
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Grover S. Krantz, an anthropologist who was never afraid to take the unpopular [...]

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On the Primarily Primates website, it was announced that on last Wednesday, December 13th, Oliver was moved from his cramped living quarters to a much larger enclosure.
For the last ten years, he has been housed in a 5′ X 12′ X 8′ circus transport cage. His new enclosure is 20′ X 40′.
You can read [...]

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I have covered the plight of Primarily Primates here on Cryptomundo in the past.
Seven of the nine chimps that were sent to Primarily Primates in San Antonio earlier this year from Ohio State University have been relocated. The other two died shortly after their arrival at Primarily primates.
They have been sent to Chimp Haven, a [...]

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Here at Cryptomundo yesterday, we received the following press release from the organization Friends Of Animals regarding Primarily Primates.
Noah Lewis of Friends Of Animals had this to say:
Hi, I saw that you were covering the seizure of Primarily Primates. Thanks for your concern about Oliver. I wanted to mention that there is quite another [...]

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The facility that is the home of Oliver, the famous once-bipedal chimp, was seized by the Texas Attorney General’s office on Friday the 13th of October. I detailed the plight of Oliver and the other animals there at Primarily Primates here on Cryptomundo back in May.
From last Sunday’s San Antonio Express-News:
At one time, Primarily [...]

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A tuft-eared marmoset was found on Tate Street, Palo Alto, San Mateo County, California, on June 27th, running along a backyard fence, according to media reports. It is of unknown origin, and is rare in the pet trade, being a native of Central and South America.

The easily captured primate will probably be flown to [...]

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In the week and a half or so before we left for San Antonio for the second round of lectures at the Bigfoot in Texas? exhibit at the Institute of Texan Cultures, I tried to line up a private tour of the Primarily Primates sanctuary for the speakers that weekend.
The speakers were Jeff Meldrum, Jimmy [...]

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Is Manimal More Man Than Animal?
by Dmitri Bayanov © 2006
International Center of Hominology
Moscow, Russia
Part Three
In my book, In the Footsteps of the Russian Snowman, 1996, I told about a local teacher in Eastern Kazakhstan, named Mstislav Kushnikov, who “has heard stories about ksy-gyik (wild man) from the locals and personally saw huge footprints at the [...]

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Published on LiveScience.com today is an article written by a Cryptomundo commenter, Benjamin Radford, editor of the Skeptical Inquirer, entitled, "Rare Woodpecker Search Sheds Light on Bigfoot." Going to the site, I found it humorous that the ad for the page is the Canadian Sasquatch for the Discovery Channel’s show "Mythbusters."
Some of what is included [...]

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