Because the similarity between orangutans and human NDA is as high as 97%, people want to study "Is human behavior inherited or learned?" This project sent Shatek, who was only a few months old at that time, to the University of Tennessee.
As a researcher, anthropologist Lynn is with it almost every day. It also regards Lynn as its mother. In its world, human beings are its own kind. It is both an orangutan and a human being. Clever, it learned to use sign language in just two weeks. And it can be used to represent more than ten kinds of things such as food and toys.
At the University of Tennessee, it studies human beings and engages in social activities. In every final exam, I can always distinguish colors and use tools accurately. Although it doesn't understand human language, it can always express its "thoughts" in sign language.
And its mother further confirmed that human socialization behavior can be learned. But when Xia Teke seemed to be used to this social atmosphere of human beings, when he was 9 years old, something happened to break this balance.
In human cognition, even the University of Tennessee has admitted its identity as a college student, although Shatek has conducted a series of social training. However, the Darwinian principle rooted in human heart "natural selection, survival of the fittest" further proves that we are a higher advanced orangutan group than Shatek. Therefore, we have the right to "kill and seize".
At the age of 9, a female student cried that Shatek tried to attack her. So everything at the University of Tennessee came to an abrupt end. Xia was forcibly sent back to the animal research center and kept in a cold cage.
It signed to visiting Lynn's mother more than once: "Mom, I love you." Mom, go and drive. I’m going home. Mom, I want to go out. "Mom, it hurts," but Lynn could do nothing. In this way, Shatek was kept in a cage 1 1 year.
1997, Atlanta Zoo expressed its willingness to adopt Satek. But by this time, Shatek had suffered from severe depression.
Although it doesn't need to live in a cage, it grew up in human social circles. Because an experiment of human beings has been artificially isolated from the ethnic group, it hopes to communicate freely with human beings countless times, but its "aggressive behavior" makes all this extravagant. In a world where human mistakes can be forgiven, being human cannot be forgiven.
Suffering from severe depression, he had to take medicine every day, but he was depressed and could not resist the fleeting time. 20 17 On August 7th, 39-year-old Shatek passed away.