Even sometimes orangutans, like humans, have a good impression on each other, including humans. The American film King Kong tells such a story. This gorilla named King Kong fell in love with human beings. This cross-species love naturally cannot have a happy ending in reality, and finally King Kong fell to his death.
There have been similar cases in real life. There is a gorilla named Shatek in America. He was born in 1977. He is a red-haired gorilla. This gorilla is highly similar to human Dan, so humans have set up many special institutions to study orangutans.
Xia is a research object. When he was a few months old, he was sent to a university, where Professor Lynn made an in-depth study of him.
Professor Lynn is also full of humanistic care for these research objects. She took Shatek as her own child and took care of him herself. Over time, Shatek also regarded her as his mother.
Xia is slowly growing, and the research content of Professor Lynn is gradually deepening. She hopes that Xia can really integrate into human society, so she takes Xia to participate in various social activities. But there is one thing that gorillas can never do, and that is to learn human language.
However, Professor Lynn came up with a solution. She treated Shatek as deaf and taught him sign language. To her surprise, Shatek quickly mastered sign language, expressed his thoughts in sign language, and had a simple communication with Lynn.
Other researchers were so surprised that the University of Tennessee even admitted Shatek's identity. Among orangutans, Xia's IQ is very high. He takes a special final exam every semester. These problems are quite difficult for orangutans, such as expressing different objects in sign language, recognizing colors and using various tools. Summer can pass with high scores every time.
Due to long-term separation from the same family and living with human beings, Xia's cognition of himself has deviated, and he began to feel that he is also a human being. Professor Lynn felt this change and once asked him if he thought he was a human or an orangutan. Shatek replied in sign language that he considered himself both a human and an orangutan.
This answer enabled Lynn to successfully complete her own topic. It seems that all kinds of social behaviors of human beings are learned through acquired learning.
While studying at the University of Tennessee, Shatek often studied with the students of the school and participated in extracurricular activities together. Slowly, he fell in love with a female classmate at the same school. According to what he learned, he knew that the way to express his affection was to say hello, so he tried to say hello to this female classmate. As a result, the other party was scared to cry by him, and the female student also told the teacher that the gorilla tried to attack herself.
Although Xia has been recognized by the school through her own efforts. But in human eyes, he is still an alien. For safety reasons, the school decided to expel Satek and forcibly send him back to the zoo.
Professor Lynn is the only one who believes in Satek. She firmly believes that the children she teaches will not hurt others at will, so she asks Shatek what happened in sign language. Xia replied that he just thought the female classmate was beautiful and wanted to say hello to her.
As we all know, different species should have different aesthetics. Professor Lynn was shocked that Shatek had a crush on female classmates. This situation is not good for Xia and the students in the school. Maybe it's best to let him go back to the zoo. So Professor Lynn stopped protesting, and finally Shatek was sent back to the zoo and returned to his animal identity.
Since then, Shatek has been imprisoned in an iron cage in the zoo. Professor Lynn visited her many times. Shatek remembers the sign language he learned. He always gesticulates that he wants to go out for ice cream.
He doesn't understand why he used to love his mother, but now he only tears for himself. Lynn couldn't do anything, because Shatek had grown to more than 400 kilograms at that time and looked very aggressive. No one can guarantee that such a gorilla will not hurt people when he goes out.
In the end, Shatek died in the zoo at the age of 39. Lynn was there when she died. He told Lynn in sign language that I thought maybe I should say goodbye to you.