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I appreciate all your comments and interest in this topic!
Kripayne, if you have or can make the opportunity to meet some chimps in their natural state, or removed from the wild but who have been treated well, their nature respected, I can promise you, it is an eye-opening experience!
Whacky, there was a book that just with its title got my attention: What If The God In All Life Mattered? Your comment reminded me of it. I agree, we are part of a net of life that surrounds this planet, and we all know what happens when a net gets a hole in it, and starts to unravel...
Jadelynn, I think the chimp's name was Lucy, and that is part of the title. If I remember more--since I don't have a chimpanzee's memory, don't count on it!--I will leave a comment in one of your blogs.
Frankenkitty, you're probably right on: the zoo may have acquired this one unaware of how it had been treated, and unaware of how violent it could be. Chimps have something like 4 times our upper body strength, and solid bones, not to mention some very respectable teeth-- which is why most performing chimps have had all their teeth pulled--and they are entirely capable of killing fury. Or the zoo might have simply been seriously behind the learning curve about chimps. Some zoos nowadays are parks, but some are still prisons.
Holy Grail, once you get to know them, it is impossible to be blind to our relationship with them. It is like watching our own roots, and understanding how deep some of our behaviors go, in our basic primate-ness, and that leads to understanding how important and powerful it is that we have the choice to outgrow, to transcend that basic survival programming.
posted by
Ciel
on March 3, 2007 at 9:59 AM
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Very interesting. I'm fascinated by primates.
posted by
Holy_Grail
on March 3, 2007 at 9:33 AM
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Ceil, this is very interesting,
and definitely a different opinion from those at the zoo. The zoo must have a particularly dangerous animal that has caused them to feel this way. I'm really glad you made a post out of your comment. I will refer people to your post.
posted by
Flumpystalls3000
on March 3, 2007 at 7:03 AM
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So sad that the poachers got her...
I shall have to check out that book next time I go to the library.
posted by
Jadelynn
on March 2, 2007 at 10:04 PM
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We are all living beings on this crazy spinning planet.
A rose
from Bo =^..^= and one
from me!
posted by
Whacky
on March 2, 2007 at 9:31 PM
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Don't know that I agree with that chimp verdict
but thought you might like the following quote:
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind. --Albert Einstein
posted by
Kripayne
on March 2, 2007 at 8:41 PM
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