Steve Ross, director of Lincoln Park Zoo center for apes, dead at 52
Steve Ross, director of Lincoln Park Zoo’s center for apes and a well-respected primatologist, died unexpectedly Wednesday at 52.
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Steve Ross, director of Lincoln Park Zoo’s center for apes and a well-respected primatologist, died unexpectedly Wednesday at 52.
Ross began working for Lincoln Park Zoo in 2000.
There have been few people who better understood the world of primates, and he changed how chimpanzees are housed and treated nationwide.
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The eight chimpanzees are among 18 that remain at the Wildlife Waystation outside Los Angeles.