Remember when those pet chimpanzees joined the Little Rock Zoo?

November 26, 2023 at 4:35 p.m.

by Celia Storey

Mikey (left) and Louie were reluctant and uncertain Nov. 20, 2008, while outdoors with the zoo's chimpanzees hooting and calling to them from afar. (Democrat-Gazette file photo)
Mikey (left) and Louie were reluctant and uncertain Nov. 20, 2008, while outdoors with the zoo's chimpanzees hooting and calling to them from afar. (Democrat-Gazette file photo)

In 2008, the Little Rock Zoo acquired two chimpanzees raised as pets in a human home. Mikey, 6, and Louie, 5, came from a Maryland woman who had dreamed of becoming a primate researcher like Jane Goodall.

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