Stella Marsden, who ran the chimpanzee rehabilitation project, stated that Lucy’s age and background meant she was not a suitable candidate for rehabilitation. Carter intended to stay with Lucy for only three weeks to ease her transition to an outdoor habitat. Eventually she was shipped to a chimpanzee rehabilitation center in The Gambia, accompanied by University of Oklahoma psychology graduate student Janis Carter. Fouts has written that when he arrived at Lucy's home at 8:30 every morning, Lucy would greet him with a hug, take the kettle, fill it with water, find two cups and tea bags, and serve the tea.īy the time she was 12 Lucy had become very strong and was very destructive in the Temerlin house.
She was frightened and did not relate to him, let alone find him attractive. Subsequently, the Temerlins introduced her for the first time to a male chimpanzee. She appeared in Life magazine, where she became famous for drinking straight gin, rearing a cat, sculpting models of human heads out of her own feces, and using Playgirl and a vacuum cleaner for sexual gratification. She was taught signs taken from American Sign Language by primatologist Roger Fouts as part of an ape language project and eventually learned 140 signs. 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. Temerlin, a psychotherapist and professor at the University of Oklahoma and his wife, Jane. Lucy (1964–1987) was a chimpanzee owned by the Institute for Primate Studies in Oklahoma, and raised by Maurice K. Lucy hugging her caretaker Janis before their final separation Not to be confused with Lucy (Australopithecus).
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