Lucy (chimpanzee)

Lucy Temerlin was a famous chimpanzee raised by Maurice Temerlin, a psychotherapist and professor at University of Oklahoma. Temerlin and his wife raised Lucy as if she were a human child, teaching her to eat with silverware, dress herself, flip through magazines, and sit in a chair at the dinner table. Despite her human upbringing, Lucy never responded to toilet training and she never learned temper management. As a teenager, Lucy learned basic American Sign Language from the primatologist Roger Fouts as part of an ape language project. Eventually, the Temerlins sent Lucy to Africa to be re-integrated into the wild. After several years of extreme hardship and adjustment difficulties, she was shot and killed by a poacher.

References

Fouts, Roger. (1998) Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees ISBN: 0380728222

Temerlin, Maurice. (1976) Lucy: Growing Up Human: A Chimpanzee Daughterin a Psychotherapists Family ISBN: 0831400455