Take Dar, for example. When our group was ushered into the chimposium at Central Washington University, the 25-year-old chimpanzee pounded on the thick glass as if to say, "Look at me. I'm a tough ...

ELLENSBURG — When Dar, one of the chimps housed at the Chimpanzee Human Communication Institute at Central Washington University, died suddenly late last November, the question of the future of ...