Ellsworth Wareham after the first such procedure was performed. Leonard Bailey, the surgeon who transplanted a baboon heart into a baby at Loma Linda University in 1984, trained under Wareham as a medical student in the late 1960s. The child, Baby Fae, was born prematurely with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and Bailey’s surgery made international headlines. Loma Linda, Wareham's home town has been described as USA's only Blue Zone, an area where the longevity is appreciably higher than the national average and one of the four places in the world to have a substantial proportion of humans live past 100 years. The
Baboon Woman Karin Saks' experiences with baboons. In several of the anecdotes told in the documentary, Saks is expanding on these experiences. More recently, her baboon work was acknowledged in Wendy Woodward's book - "The Animal Gaze", published in 2008. Samango Monkey Research Project https://samangomonkey.wordpress.com . Baboon Woman Baboon Woman is a wildlife documentary starring Karin Saks. In South Africa, baboons have historically been treated as pests and are persecuted. As human development continues to encroach on natural habitats, the war between humans and non-human primates in South Africa, is increasing. Non-lethal methods to manage perceived "problem" non-human primates are encouraged by