We can care about both human rights and the rights of other great apes (and other animals). It’s not the case that there’s only enough compassion for one or the other. In many ways, the pending legislation says “There are even fewer reasons to deny an individual life and liberty. Today, we say that this tiny genetic distinction cannot be used as license to torture and kill.”
For the budding primatologist or eco-minded kid, I’m Lucy should be fun and educational summertime hit. And what a great cause. And look at that face. Makes me wish I were a kid!
Last week there were causes for both celebration and sorrow for chimpanzees living in captivity in the US: some find a new home and another passes on. Both stories will tug at your heart strings.
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Are chimpanzees highly social beings? Yes. Do scientists therefore think of their relationships - in all their complexity, subtlety and variety - as a matter of course when they write, study and think about chimpanzees? No. Not necessarily.
Elizabeth Hess provides an intimate portrait of the life of an individual chimpanzee, Nim Chimpsky.
What first caught my eye was the letter from a “lovelorn chimpanzee” to the female primatologist who had come to his group’s territory
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