Talk:Ham the Chimp

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[edit] Ham's remains

I seem to remember that Ham's skeleton is actually at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, so I wonder if the rest of his remains are buried in New Mexico, or what.

http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/stripe/10_10/features/33756-1.html

What's even more strange is that the museum has made casts of some of Ham's bones, and they are for sale. For $145, you can pick up a plastic replica of Ham's pelvic girdle:

http://www.francecasts.com/casts/primates/post_cranial/

--Jkonrath 18:03, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes, National Museum of Health and Medicine does have his skeleton. (The URL for Stripe has moved, it is now http://www.dcmilitary.com/dcmilitary_archives/stories/031005/33756-1.shtml .) The New York Times also mentioned in an August 6, 2002 story that they have his skeleton, see http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E5D6133BF935A3575BC0A9649C8B63 . The book Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle by Colin Burgess and Chris Dubbs states on p. 258 that Ham's skeleton was retained and his other remains buried at International Space Hall of Fame. The bit in the Wikipedia article about Minnie being buried there seems to be bogus and I am flagging it for citation needed. There's no documentation for this, and I've visited the Ham grave site and there's no mention of Minnie. --Uncia (talk) 14:38, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

No verification of Minnie's burial place has come forth, so I have deleted this claim from the article. The deleted text is: "Minnie is buried next to Ham at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo, New Mexico." --Uncia (talk) 21:24, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ham's birth date

Ham is variously reported as having been born in 1955, 1956, or 1957, and correspondingly there are various reports of his age at milestones in his career and life. A birth date of July 1957 seems to be the most reliable, and I give two references for this in the article. Uncia (talk) 00:38, 13 May 2008 (UTC)