Untamed Heart agent, MGM had greenlighted the project. Originally, the film was titled "The Baboon Heart" in honor of an infant named Baby Fae (born 14 October 1984) who received a cross-species heart transplant from a baboon to fix a congenital heart defect. Initially, Bill had not considered Christian Slater for the role of Adam, “but then it was just the obvious choice." For the role of Caroline, Bill remembered auditioning Marisa Tomei for his earlier film, "Five Corners". While she had been too young for that role, after her success with "My Cousin Vinny" he felt she was right for the
Olive baboon elephants use the tree-top baboons as an early warning system. The olive baboon is listed as least concern by the IUCN because "this species is very widespread and abundant and although persecuted as a crop raider there are no major threats believed to be resulting in a range-wide population decline". Despite persecution, the baboon is still widespread and numerous. Competition and disease have possibly led to fewer baboons in closed forests. It has been actively persecuted as a pest. Olive baboon The olive baboon ("Papio anubis"), also called the Anubis baboon, is a member of the family Cercopithecidae (Old World