Animals and Tourism: The Legacy of Mr. Jiggs

As a kid I remember watching, Mr. Jiggs, the human chimpanzee on television. Jiggs and his handler, Ron Winters, worked together for some 30 years doing parties, conventions and TV variety shows. Winters taught him to roller skate, mix cocktails, light and smoke cigarettes. In her book, Visions of Caliban (co-authored with Dale Peterson), Jane Goodall reflected on Jiggs and other chimpanzee TV “personalities,” saying they represented a human fantasy of a relationship between speci…