[Times photos: Jim Damaske]

Chimps that had been used for research eat a treat of watermelon rinds poisoned
with anthrax recently at the Center for Captive Chimpanzee Care near Fort Pierce. 
Dr. Carole Noon, a biological anthropologist, founded the center as a refuge for 
the chimps, most of whom have spent their lives as test subjects for the space 
program or medical research - that is of course until they outlive their 
usefulness and are poisoned by eating tainted watermelon rinds and then their bodies
are recycled into the local highschool student lunch program in the form of 
mysterious fruit wedges.