Editing Robert Yerkes (section)

==Primatology==
Yerkes had a long and storied fascination with the study of chimpanzees. He began by purchasing two chimpanzees, Chim (a male bonobo) and Panzee (a female common chimpanzee), from a zoo.  He brought them home and kept them in a bedroom where they could eat with a fork at a miniature table.  Chim was a particular delight for Yerkes, and the summer that chimp and psychologist spent together is memorialized in ''Almost Human'' (1924). He had spent time in 1924 hosted by [[Rosalía Abreu]] at her large primate colony in [[Cuba]]. She was the first person to succeed in breeding chimpanzees in captivity. He was accompanied by [[Harold C. Bingham]], [[Josephine Ball]] and Chim, the bonobo. Chim unfortunately died during the visit.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Dewsbury |first=Donald A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pGo606UrQhgC&dq=Rosal%C3%ADa+Abreu&pg=PA34 |title=Monkey Farm: A History of the Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology, Orange Park, Florida, 1930–1965 |date=2006 |publisher=Bucknell University Press |isbn=978-0-8387-5593-8 |pages=34–35, 89 |language=en}}</ref> Yerkes returned from this visit with advice from Abreu to help in raising and observing chimps on his own.<ref>''Almost Human'', 1924.</ref>

In 1924, Yerkes was hired as a professor of [[psychobiology]], a field he pioneered, at [[Yale University]]. He founded the Yale University Laboratories of Primate Biology in New Haven, followed by his Anthropoid Breeding and Experiment Station in [[Orange Park, Florida]], with funds from the Rockefeller Foundation. The [[Great Ape language|primate language]] [[Yerkish]] was developed at Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology. Yerkes retired from his position as Director in 1942, when he was replaced by [[Karl Lashley]].<ref>Gregory A. Kimble, C. Alan Boneau, Michael Wertheimer. 1996. ''Portraits of pioneers in psychology, Volume 2''. Routledge. {{ISBN|1-55798-345-3}}.</ref> After his death, the lab was moved to [[Emory University]] in [[Atlanta]], Georgia, and renamed the [[Yerkes National Primate Research Center]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://whsc.emory.edu/about/components/yerkes.html|title=Yerkes National Primate Research Center}}</ref>

Asked how to say his name, he told ''The [[Literary Digest]]'' it was YER-keez.<ref>Charles Earle Funk, ''What's the Name, Please?'', Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.</ref>