Chimp Sketch of the Week #27

Jordan Tee Shirt 

I recently did a few portraits for Save The Chimps in Florida a Chimpanzee Sanctuary with over 250 chimpanzee residents. They took one of them and put them on a shirt.

Buy one here I don't get a penny but its a great cause

here is the original drawing

Chimp Sketch of the week #26

Save the Chimps in Florida needs $800,000 for chimps with special needs

Chimp Sketch of the Week #25

Pepper (RIP)

I logged on to facebook the other day and I saw a post that Pepper the chimp had passed away. Pepper was born in 1970 and spent her first 27 years in research, first at a Merck, Sharp & Dohme laboratory, followed by seven years at the Buckshire Corporation. When she became too strong to control, she was sent to the NYU Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP). Pepper spent some time in breeding, but was mostly used for research, including some 307 knockdowns, 36 punch liver biopsies, one open wedge liver biopsy, six cervical biopsies, 10 lymph node biopsies, and four bone marrow biopsies. In the lab, Pepper was plagued by fear and anxiety, and would rather starve herself than face an unpleasant situation. Luckily she spent the end of her life in Sanctuary at Fauna but unfortunately so many others do not.

I never met pepper of course but reading about her in the book The Chimps Fauna Sanctuary make me feel as if I did. It would be nice if everyone reading this post would go here and make a small donation to the Fauna Foundation in Peppers honor.

References:

http://www.releasechimps.org/chimpanzees/their-stories/pepper/

The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery by Andrew Westoll

Drawing based on photo by Frank Noelker


for a complete obituary of Pepper please click here 

Happy Anniversary

Today signifies the one-year partnership of the writer Eric Johnson and I publishing at Scientific American, we completed 32 posts together. Below is the image I created for today’s Anniversary post

Below are a few of my favorites over the year.

shakespeare

This one was inspired by an article Eric Johnson wrote. I drew this one a year ago after reading it. We recently published them together at Scientific American. click here