Harvey Cutter was a hunter who traveled back to prehistoric times to capture specimens of primates for the San Diego Cenozoic Zoo. On one occasion, he captured a dozen Notharctus specimens from the Eocene in North America. On another mission he traveled back ten million years (much more recent than the Eocene) to Miocene Italy. He was having troubles capturing specimens of the hominoids he was after. He had set out a number of live capture traps but the creatures were ignoring the fruit he had set out as bait.