LUCY BLOG!
Is it fair to an animal to raise it as a human being and then let it go and leave it alone in the wild? Will the animal know what to do to be able to survive? Will the animal ever be able to live like a normal animal does? These questions and thoughts are answered in the talk about Lucy the Chimp. Lucy was a Chimpanzee that was raised as if she were a human baby. She had a mother and a father ( a couple that was willing to try this experiment) and she even had her own crib. The purpose of this experiment with Lucy was to see whether it was possible to raise a Chimp to be almost human. To see if Chimps could act like humans and get along with humans. At first, Lucy almost fit in. When Lucy was little, she would play with toys, and she would interact with people. Lucy learned sign language, she learned how to cook and she learned how to play with humans like another human being. Sometimes, Lucy would make tea for her "mother" and other times, she would play tag with her "father". Lucy's parent's thought of her as their own daughter.
When Lucy came into her teen years, she actually started becoming interested in boys. Human boys instead of Chimp boys. This might have been except able because Lucy had never seen another Chimp before. As Lucy started getting older, she became stronger and stronger. She got so strong that it was a concern and her parents decided to end the experiment and set her free to live like a normal Chimp. Lucy was brought to a little "island"(a little island surrounded by a river) in Africa. She was set free with some other Chimps that were brought up like her. A woman who was a friend of Lucy's stayed with them for a year and the chimps refused to go fend for themselves and eventually they wondered off and left the woman alone. All except for Lucy who stayed with her the whole time until the woman left. A year after leaving, the woman went back to see how Lucy and the others were doing. When she arrived, Lucy came to her and they hugged for a long time. The next time the woman came to check on Lucy, she found Lucy's remains. She was killed and skinned and her hands and feet were cut off. It is thought that hunters came onto the island and Lucy, being used to humans, approached them and was killed.

Was Lucy's death fair? I believe that Lucy's death was horrible and tragic. She died from a humans hand. Lucy was used to humans, she considered them family because she was raised that way. I do not believe that it is fair to Chimps to be raised as humans and then be let free and expected to fend for themselves. It is not fair and it is not just.