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Many infant captive apes develop a sort of Stockholm Syndrome with their captors. Not this little gorilla, who eyes researcher Geoffrey Bourne warily as Bourne grips him tightly in a forced embrace. The photo is from the back cover of Bourne's book _The Ape People_ (1971).

This 1920 photo of John Daniel with his 3-year playmate was circulated widely in the 1920s. According to his caregiver, Alysa Cunningham, John Daniel loved to play games with children. For example, he’d shut his eyes tightly, then move about the room, bumping into tables and chairs, grinning all along.

A few months after this photo was taken, Cunningham sold John Daniel to Ringling Brothers. He died shortly thereafter, in April 1921.

I'm trying to keep this plant alive but it's been struggling. The leaves all have yellowed speckles and some have purple specks as well. Zone 7a, it's in full sun, and I've been watering daily. Previously, I watered every 2-3 days but my plant app told me to water more... it also keeps telling me to feed it epsom salts, which I've done twice in a month, and it didn't seem to help. I have a commercial 10-10-10 fertilizer and a "bloom booster" 10-30-20 I could try. Or maybe I should move it to a less hot spot? Advice welcome!

I've been researching ways nonhuman apes and monkeys have resist humans, and, lemme tell you, this kind of thing never gets old. The text is excerpted from Earnest Hooten's _Man's Poor Relations_ (1942).

[ IMAGE : A page from the book includes a subsection titled "How Howlers Behave Toward Human Beings." Highlighted text from the passage quotes Ray Carpenter: "I would usually be sitting quietly observing the animals as they were in the trees above me. Either seen or unseen, an individual would slowly approach to a place directly above me or as near-by as possible, and then would release excrement, either urine or fecal matter or both." ]

I have a zine coming out with a lengthy investigation of a small Boston-nonprofit that promoted using monkeys as care-givers for disabled people. According to my research, claims of this scheme actually working were nonsense. Yet Boston University, the Boston Globe, and other local media helped promote this group for over 4 decades!

Could anyone recommend independent Boston media (could be blogs, newsletters, podcasts, etc.) that might be interesed in reviewing this story and covering it from a local perspective?  I tried to get former staff members from this group to talk, and was only able to get one on the record.