Have you ever heard of a chimp acting so human like that it was no longer an ape. Well if you haven't then you have never heard about Lucy. She was a chimpanzee that was raised in a house and socialized with humans. She became so human she could never be an ape again. In the end though she could never be human enough to live in our world.
Lucy's parents were killed right after she was born because of this she made the perfect test subject of whether or not apes could act like a human. She became more and more human over her years with the people that had adopted her. In the end though she could never be human enough and ended up in a caged off part of the house. The people that had adopted then decided to release her in the wild so she could be an ape again. Lucy did not do well and almost died before she was taken to an island with many other apes that had been humanized. It still took many years but in the end Lucy returned to her ape habits. The people that had helped her get used to the outdoors again returned two years later to see what was happening to her. They found her dead killed by poachers.
Lucy thought us that if chimps have close contact with humans that they become something in between human and ape not quite human not quite ape. This means that all humans have primal instincts that we suppress to be considered human by all the other humans. I have always believed that apes but I never understood that chimpanzees were the most advanced. I also never understood that they could be so human like. I believe that the experiment cost Lucy here life not only in a literal but also in that she could never live her life as a chimp because of this I will never believe that it was worth while. Lucy death made me very sad not just because she was killed by poachers but also because she was very trusting of humans because of how she had been raised.
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