Lucy the Chimpanzee
Lucy was adopted by Maurice and Jane Temerlin only two days after being born. They were going to use Lucy as an experiment; they were going to see what would happen if Lucy was raised as a human. They had Lucy wear dresses, eat using silverware, flip through magazines, and sit at the dinner table nicely. Lucy was once observed lying, something that was once thought to be uniquely human. She functioned well as a human, until she got so big that her strength just destroyed the Temerlin's home. The Temerlins sent her to a chimpanzee rehabilitation center when Lucy was twelve, and Lucy just did not fit in. She was scared around other chimpanzees, and she only found humans attractive. Although her adopted parents left after a few weeks, Janis Carter, Lucy's caretaker, stayed for over a year to help Lucy be able to live on her own in the wild. Once Carter thought Lucy was ready, she left. She returned a year later with some of Lucy's belongings, and Lucy embraced Carter before leaving with a group of chimpanzees, showing that she assimilated to life as a chimpanzee. Carter returned a year after that, to find Lucy's skeleton. She had been poached.
