Lucy

we all know that Chimps are our closest living animal but how much are we really alike?

In a NPR radio podcast we listened to a story about Lucy a female chimpanzee. She was razed by humans her hole adolescent years. She was used as a scientific project to see how human like a chimpanzee could be. She eventually talked like humans and even was sexually attracted to humans. You could say she de-bonked lots of myths or prier conscription about the abilities of chimps. But at age 11 Lucy became to strong and violent so they decided to let her go free on a abandons island with other chimps. A lady named Janet stayed there with her to try to teach her how to be a chimp, she stayed for several years when she was only planning on staying three months. Once Janet thought she was ready she left Lucy and came back 2 years later to find Lucy's carcass all bones laying where Janet used to stay on the island. Their best guess was that she was poached because there was not sighs of hair left  or she scared a person coming onto the island when she came to approach then and they shot her.

 I have mixed feeling about this story because yes Lucy did teach us a lot but her human socialization in the long run killed her, and her ability to be a normal chimp. Its a sad ending but what did they expect was going happen, she was never going to be live a normal life. It was really cool to see how smart chimps are though! Like how she had the ability to lie, make up words and be sexually attracted to another species considering that we thought that was impossible before. I did enjoy listening to this story very much and it go me thinking how much alike we really are to chimps.