Willie
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Help Willie get out of the Lonely Hearts Club! He is in need of more sponsors to help support his state-of-the-art care at PPI. For less than your favorite streaming service costs each month, sign up to sponsor Willie before February 14th and receive “Lonely Hearts Club” stickers in addition to a certificate and biannual update. (Minimum sponsorship: $20/month)
Willie, born in the early 1980s, arrived with four other chimpanzees who were owned by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All had been trained to perform in Project X, a popular film about chimpanzees used for Air Force research. In the film’s story an air force pilot and an animal researcher risk their lives to save chimpanzees from hazardous experiments. Willie was born at San Antonio’s Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research. Willie was raised by his mother only for six months, then removed to the lab’s nursery. He was transferred to the entertainment business around the age of three. His most joyful time of day is when caregivers arrive with wheelbarrows of carrots, lettuce, broccoli, apples, pears, melons, plums, bananas and other fruits and vegetables.