A Chimp's Story

     A chimp named Lucy who was a big part of the Temerlin(a psychology major) life and studies. The other day we learned about this significant individual who was raised to be human. Lucy was born a Chimpanzee and than she was given to the Temerlin household as an experiment. At a young age Lucy would show signs of Human like behavior. One of Lucy's daily habits was she would go into the kitchen put a pot full of water on the stove and make herself a cup of tea. Lucy was also taught to sign so she could communicate with her Handlers and her non-biological Parents.
     Lucy was famous and notorious for drinking gin when she hit a higher age in her life. One day she walked out of the Kitchen with a bottle of gin and a magazine. That magazine ended up to be a Playgirl magazine and Lucy was masturbating to the site of a human. Lucy had managed to take the vacuum from a local closet and do these dirty deeds.
     Than Lucy hit an age around 12. Lucy was becoming very destructive and would go around the house tearing things apart. It wasn't hard for Lucy to go into a clean room and turn it into a disaster in seconds. She would break dry wall and would break vases and throw books across rooms. At this point the Temerlins had to give her up and send her off with her caretaker Janis Carter to a Wildlife sanctuary on an Island. On this Island Lucy didn't get along at first but she soon adapted due to the help of Janis Carter when Janis Carter ate a leaf and than Lucy started too. Janis would visit this Island each year to see how Lucy was doing but the last year she visited the Island Lucy was only a pile of bones. Lucy's life had been taken by poachers and that was the end of her story.
      I feel this story is very sad and very interesting at the same time. Lucy was such a sweet ape and I'm guessing that is why she was killed. It is a mean and disturbing thing to say but Lucy was raised as a human like Caesar in Rise Of The Planet of the Apes. Lucy went off and probably tried to greet these humans with sign language and at that moment she was shot and torn apart. If Lucy wasn't raised by humans at first she wouldn't have been killed. Yet even though this happened I find it very interesting she was raised as a human. It reminds of the Socialization project last year. It reminds me how people have been socialized to be dogs or to like what their parents like. It tells me that not only humans can be socialized to be something they are not. I find this very interesting and to be a good study for humans due to the fact a Psychology teacher did this study. It is very awesome.

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