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"Knockdown" doesn't refer to gene knockdowns: http://www.releasechimps.org/research/overview/knockdowns http://www.releasechimps.org/research/overview/knockdown
by jackcarter 8y ago
"Knockdown" doesn't refer to gene knockdowns: http://www.releasechimps.org/research/overview/knockdowns http://www.releasechimps.org/research/overview/knockdowns
See the upper-right chimp (Binky) for confirmation: "In eight years, this young male known as "Ch-665" was knocked down 136 times-mostly for cage changes and tooth cleanings."
- downer60 8y agoWell, today I learned. I feel like the use of specialized jargon doesn't help communicate the experience or idea the artist would probably like to convey, by including those kinds of details in the captions. The definition for the term needs to be provided as a footnote, each time it gets used under that context, since non-experts are among the audience. You have to figure that chimpanzees are psychologically advanced enough that it's really the totality of an experience in a lab cage that ruins them. Getting shot with tranquilizer darts is more or less the icing on the cake, adding insult to injury. I'd suspect that after, on or around knockdown #20, the maximum amount of trust has been eroded, and a chimpanzee is pretty much done with being around people, but especially the ones that dart them.