Posted on 01/22/2024 5:06:55 PM PST by Twotone
Extraordinary video footage shows how two scientist parents attempted to raise their infant son alongside a chimpanzee as part of a bizarre nature versus nurture experiment in 1931.
Psychologists Winthrop and Luella Kellogg conducted the study on their ten-month-old son Donald and a seven-month-old chimp called Gua at their Florida home.
The couple were attempting to establish if it was possible to educate an ape and teach them to communicate as a human.
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Donald took to walking around on all fours, dragging his knuckles like an ape.
He would often start biting people when he became aggressive and he and Gua shared a secret language of bark-like noises that they would use to communicate.
Donald began to lag behind his peers in terms of development, and often chose to shun other children in favor of playing with Gua.
All the while, Gua was growing in strength and becoming more and more unpredictable.
Eventually, the couple became so concerned by Donald's behavior and the potential for Gua to lash out that they opted to end the experiment early.
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Did the kid recover from this experiment?
These people are fools. Reminds me these two other fools with a birthay cake.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/california-chimp-attack-leaves-man-in-critical-condition-1.562263#:~:text=Two%20chimpanzees%20broke%20free%20from%20their%20cage%20at,Los%20Angeles%20home%20in%201999%20for%20aggressive%20behaviour.
They watched too many Tarzan movies with Johnny Weissmuller..................
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Little is known about the impact of the experiment on Donald, but he tragically took his own life in January 1973 at the age of 43.
His suicide came after the death of both parents in the summer of 1972.
This is why children should not be going to drag-queen story hour!!!
Very sad.
Says he committed suicide in his 40s.
The kid grew up and committed suicide at age 43.
What morons.
Considering what chimps have been known to do to people they turn on, they are fortunate that their son was not attacked and either disfigured or killed by the animal.
For some reason, I have ALWAYS hated primates.
That’s why Obama could never take Michelle anywhere, she keeps biting the other guests.
This kid’s parents were an example of an age-old phenomenon - IYI. Intelligent, yet idiot.
he tragically took his own life in January 1973 at the age of 43.
His suicide came after the death of both parents in the summer of 1972.....................
One wonders at the personality traits that make a good scientist. So un-empathic to their own child that they’d make them into an experiment? Yes, very sad.
Then Donald changed his name to Joe and became successful at stealing elections.
We are primates.....................😜
UK mail website is filled with popup virus these days. It takes over my screen before I get into article.
I’ve heard the term *college educated idiots* many times.
There have been some weird things done over the years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Identical_Strangers
One of the worst ones was that of Canadian David Reimer who also took his own life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer
What they learned:
Putting a human child with an animal doesn't make the animal more human, it makes the human more like an animal.
Our school systems are a furtherance of that experiment.
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