Alfred Russell Wallace's The Malay Archipelago, published in 1869, is a classic text in natural history and the theory of evolution. Amidst heroic hunting narratives and picturesque descriptions of local fauna and flora, stands out a curious episode in which Wallace describes adopting a baby orangutan, whose mother he had killed. Wallace, a British naturalist and collector, cultivated an affectionate relationship with the orphaned orangutan, often referring to her as his "baby." This paper examines how the orangutan was transformed from being a moving target for museum display, to a beloved companion but also a scientific specimen. In this process, Wallace redesigned his colonial bungalow to a space that combined domestic settings with engineered nature-like environments, a familiar construction in later primate research. I use Wallace's adoption episode to discuss how affect and care were interwoven into the exploitative relations of British naturalists and physiologists and the animals they studied. The account of Wallace's idiosyncratic relationship with the orangutan is augmented with additional documentation of the close relationships of scientists with research animals, staged as familial kinship. The emergence of the "laboratory pet" demonstrates how the production of knowledge, the sharing of households, and human-animal emotional ties were interwoven in early biomedical research.

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阿尔弗雷德华莱士的小猩猩：游戏，宠物，标本

阿尔弗雷德·罗素·华莱士 (Alfred Russell Wallace) 的《马来群岛》(The Malay Archipelago) 出版于 1869 年，是自然史和进化论的经典著作。在英勇的狩猎叙述和对当地动植物的如画描述中，突出了一个奇怪的情节，华莱士描述了收养一只被他杀死的母亲的小猩猩。华莱士是一位英国博物学家和收藏家，他与这只孤儿猩猩建立了深情的关系，经常称她为他的“宝贝”。本文探讨了猩猩如何从博物馆展示的移动目标、心爱的伴侣和科学标本转变而来。在这个过程中，华莱士将他的殖民平房重新设计成一个将家庭环境与工程化的自然环境相结合的空间，这是后来灵长类动物研究中熟悉的建筑。我使用华莱士的收养插曲来讨论情感和关怀如何与英国博物学家和生理学家以及他们研究的动物的剥削关系交织在一起。华莱士与猩猩的特殊关系的描述增加了科学家与研究动物的密切关系的额外文件，作为家族亲属上演。“实验室宠物”的出现证明了知识的生产、家庭的共享以及人与动物的情感纽带在早期生物医学研究中是如何交织在一起的。科学家与研究动物的密切关系的额外记录增强了与猩猩的特殊关系，以家庭亲属关系上演。“实验室宠物”的出现证明了知识的生产、家庭的共享以及人与动物的情感纽带在早期生物医学研究中是如何交织在一起的。科学家与研究动物的密切关系的额外记录增强了与猩猩的特殊关系，以家庭亲属关系上演。“实验室宠物”的出现证明了知识的生产、家庭的共享以及人与动物的情感纽带在早期生物医学研究中是如何交织在一起的。