Thursday, November 7, 2013

Blurred Lines

When you first hear that you will be listening to a documentary about chimpanzees, and especially one chimp who was raised as a human from birth. Her name was Lucy, and her parents had taken her away from her chimp mother when she was just two days old. From then, she was treated as a human. She was able to get herself dressed, make tea and learned sign language. But as she began to sexually mature, her parents began to notice some changes in her; she was stronger, she started to masturbate to pictures of human men and when they tried to introduce her to a male chimpanzee, she was signing "scared". Had they taken it to far? Raising her as their own? So the Temerlin's decided to move her into the jungle with some other chimps that had been in human care. Lucy was persistent, and wouldn't leave her human guide, and this went on for many years, Lucy internally battling herself. In the end, they found Lucy's body with out the hands, and they believed that some poachers had stopped by the island, and Lucy went to investigate and say "hi."

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