Reply #3: RadioLab did a show on a failed attempt to socialize a chimp -- Lucy -- >> link

[nashville_brook]

well, maybe it wasn't "failed" -- it was successful, but that was worse.


http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2010/04/09

Check out the video at the link, and definitely listen to the whole show -- it's amazing.



LUCY
Chimps. Bonobos. Humans. We're all great apes. This hour we take a look at what happens when we all try to live together. Is this idea utterly stupid? Or might it be our one last hope as more and more humans fill up the planet?



...the haunting epic of Lucy the chimpanzee. When Lucy was only two days old, she was adopted by psychologist Dr. Maurice K. Temerlin and his wife Jane. The Temerlins wondered, if given the right environment, how human could Lucy become? We hear from Lucy's language tutor, Dr. Roger Fouts, Lucy's caretaker and eventual friend, Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, and Mr. Temerlin himself... or his words anyway, read by radio host David Garland. And writer Charles Siebert helps us to make sense of Lucy's story. Check out this slideshow of Lucy's life, including the photo snapped as Janis and Lucy hugged in Gambia: