His intake examination revealed some previous rough handling. Oliver was purchased in 1989 by the Buckshire Corporation, a Pennsylvania laboratory leasing out animals for scientific and cosmetic testing. Rivers reported problems with Oliver not getting along with other chimpanzees.īuckshire Corporation (1989–1998) The last trainer to own Oliver was Bill Rivers. Oliver was transferred to the Wild Animal Training Center in Riverside, California, owned by Ken Decroo, but he was reportedly sold by Decroo in 1985. The Los Angeles Times did an extensive article about Oliver as a possible missing link or a new subspecies of chimpanzee. When Enchanted Village closed later that year, Helfer continued exhibiting Oliver in a new venture, Gentle Jungle, which changed locations a few times before finally closing in 1982.
In 1977, Oliver's owner, Michael Miller, gave Oliver to Ralph Helfer, partner in a small theme park called Enchanted Village in Buena Park, California, built on the site of the defunct Japanese Village and Deer Park attraction. Enchanted Village and other facilities (1977–1989) She and her husband Frank Berger decided to sell Oliver to New York attorney Michael Miller. In a DecemDiscovery Channel special, Janet Berger stated that Oliver started to become attracted to her when he reached the age of 16. Oliver possessed a flatter face than his fellow chimpanzees was in the habit of walking bipedally, rather than on his knuckles much more often than his chimpanzee peers (until he was later struck with arthritis) and may have preferred human females over chimpanzee females. Some physical and behavioral evidence led the Bergers to believe Oliver was a creature other than a chimpanzee, perhaps a human-chimpanzee hybrid. Supposedly, the chimpanzee had been caught in the Congo. Oliver was acquired as a young animal in 1970 by trainers Frank and Janet Berger. 2 Enchanted Village and other facilities (1977–1989).
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