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"Arguments that chimpanzees and bonobos cannot feel pain or suffer recall that until recently, many doctors believed that human newborns couldn't either and mercilessly operated on them without anesthesia. One 1997 study revealed that more than half the children between the ages of four and eight months who had undergone major surgery were given no medication for postoperative pain."

P.182 Rattling the Cage by Steven M. Wise

To learn more about Great Apes see the links below:

A Supporter Of The Great Ape Project

1. Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute
2. Next of Kin Book Review
3. Great Ape Project