The Story of Lucy

How human can a chimpanzee be? In 1964 Lucy, a female chimpanzee, was born. Lucy was part of an experiment to raise her as a human to see how human she could become. She was raised with a family and loved as a daughter. Lucy was taught sign language to communicate.  The results of this experiment were very positive and Lucy was actually very human. She would combine words to create new words for things that didn't have a name. Like she called watermelon candydrink. She could do a lot of things that humans do. When guests would come over she would make tea on the stove, She could make herself gin and tonic, and many other similar things. But when she got older she would tear everything apart and break everything because she became mature and really strong. So her family sent her back to the wild. It was really hard for Lucy to adjust to the wild and after she was in the wild for 2 years she was killed poachers. This was a really sad and interesting story and we learned a lot from it and realized how close we are to our chimpanzee brothers.