Steve Ross devoted his career and life to the care, welfare, and study of chimpanzees across the planet.
A few years ago, Steve Ross was sitting in his office at Lincoln Park Zoo. He was, explaining with his distinctive brand of passionate accessibility the differences between apes and monkeys, saying, “In short and in the simplest terms, they are all primates and monkeys have tails while apes do not.”
Ross died April 20 in Evanston, where he had lived for years with his wife and their two children. He was 53. His death was announcedThe death came as a shock to those who knew him, as it often does when the deceased is so young.longtime president and CEO of the zoo. “Steve was tireless in the cause of ensuring that all chimpanzees, in the wild and in captivity, would be included on the endangered species list, and that effectively ended the chimpanzee pet trade.
He would earn a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Guelph in Ontario, a master’s in differential rearing effects on chimpanzee behavior from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in providing opportunities for naturalistic behavior and the implications for captive nonhuman primate management, behavior and welfare from the University of Copenhagen.
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