цветы для Элджернона

19:40 | 31-12-2013 | Biology, History | No Comments

пожалуйста, новогодняя, новожизненная история:

[Maurice] Temerlin and his wife raised Lucy [a chimpanzee] as if she were a human child, teaching her to eat with silverware, dress herself, flip through magazines, and sit in a chair at the dinner table. She was taught rudimentary American Sign Language by primatologist Roger Fouts.

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By the time she was 12, Lucy had become very strong and was very destructive in the Temerlin house. Eventually, she was shipped to a chimpanzee rehabilitation center in Gambia, accompanied by University of Oklahoma psychology graduate student Janis Carter. For years, Lucy was unable to relate to the other chimps in the rehabilitation center, and never reproduced, displaying sexual attraction only to humans. Lucy showed many signs of depression, including refusal to eat, and expressed “hurt” via sign language.

а вы говорите Джон Донн.

  

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