Baby Fae chose to reveal herself in 1997. The Paul Simon song "The Boy in the Bubble" from the 1986 "Graceland" album references her in the lyrics. "Medicine is magical and magical is art / Thinking of the Boy in the Bubble / And the baby with the baboon heart". In the episode "I Love Lisa" of "The Simpsons", the school cafeteria serves beef hearts in honor of Valentine's Day. Bart Simpson puts one under his shirt, exclaiming "My baboon heart! Body.. rejecting it!" before dramatically everting it onto the table. In the episode “The Silent Partners” of the Adult Swim cartoon,
Jack (baboon) was initiated after a concerned member of the public reported that a baboon was observed changing railway signals at Uitenhage near Port Elizabeth. After initial skepticism, the railway decided to officially employ Jack once his job competency was verified. The baboon was paid twenty cents a day, and a half-bottle of beer each week. It is widely reported that in his nine years of employment with the railroad, Jack never made a mistake. After nine years of duty, Jack died of tuberculosis in 1890. Jack's skull is in the collection of the Albany Museum in Grahamstown. Jack (baboon) Jack (died