His father is the assistant to the president of the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research there.

The baboon was bred and raised at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio.

Paul is a chimpanzee, one of 35 chimps living in a retirement village on the grounds of the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research.

The Southwest Foundation, a sprawling complex, with a gamey odor, on the outskirts of the city, provided lifelong care for its research subjects even before the retirement program was developed.

Instead, the catalogue headings simply read, "Property of a Southwest Foundation."

Another group of chimps from the Southwest Foundation in San Antonio came soon afterward.

The organization (now known as the Conference of Southwest Foundations) presently consists of 200 member organizations in a seven-state area.

The baboon, a male, had been flown in from the Southwest Foundation in San Antonio, where it had been raised.

So their owner, the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, plans to put more than $1.7 million in a chimpanzee retirement fund over the next 10 years.

The Southwest Foundation is among the leading facilities worldwide that conducts AIDS and hepatitis research using chimpanzees as study objects.