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Britain's New Memory Champion
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Now I’m sure there are a bunch of things that Ayumu would prefer to be doing than playing a computer game with an accountant from Derby (such as, like, being a normal chimpanzee), but the widely reported story does show, yet again, just how intelligent primates are, and just how overwhelmingly hideous it is that it’s still legal to throw them in cages, pump them full of drugs, and dispose of them once we’ve gotten what we wanted out of them. I’m thinking specifically of you guys right now, Covance.
Not to be a total downer or anything, but here’s hoping that this story at least helps a few more people to make that connection.
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Ayumu is so a lovely dude! I would like to close him into my arms - if he would permit it! Some years ago, when i was still young and dumb i visited a zoo and there was a chimp mother with her child and again i did something i shouldn't do! She put her hand outside and made sign for me to shake hands and i gave her a banana - so with one hand she kept her child and with the otherone she ate the banana without giving anything to the baby because it was too small! then i stretched my hand out and she kept me! she was very sweet and looked at me all the time - then she let me go and when i went away she looked always at me - a long long time! so this i shall never forget because still nowadays i think at this lovely chimp mother with her baby and what was her destiny! today i don't go to zoos and circuses anymore because there the animals are exposed again to unwanted situations etc! anyhow i love apes - all, chimps, hanuman langures, orang utans, gorillas, pavians and so on! and if some people like it or not - they are our relatives! it is proven that they have a common ancestor with the human being and they are genetically very close to us - so FREEDOM FOR ALL THE APES!
Posted by: Footprint | January 30, 2008 05:30 PM
OH THIS DISGUSTS ME!!!! HOW CAN WE BE TREATING ANIMALS LIKE THIS!!!!
THIS TRULY BRINGS ME TO TEARS FOR THAT POOR BEING!!!! STOP THE INSANITY!!!!
Posted by: Joe | January 30, 2008 06:37 PM
This sure proves so much!
Posted by: Kurt K | January 31, 2008 09:32 AM
Well said. I keep wondering how it's even possible for presumably intelligent scientists and medical researchers to observe these findings and still think it's OK to keep these animals in cages and perform hideous experiments on them.
Dr. Mengele would be so proud.
Posted by: Susannah S | January 31, 2008 09:41 AM
Ayumu has shown how smart chimps are, so maybe it´s time to give her a chance to be a regular chimpazee. She deserves it! But sadly these scientists to not have the intellience to see this. She should be rewarded with a chimp´s life instead of treats.
Posted by: Maureen | January 31, 2008 05:47 PM