Chantek Animal Testing

I found that this documentary caught my attention and interest very well. The experiment that Lyn did with her orangutan; Chantek, amazed me so much. As many people may disagree with animal testing, I think that this experiment of teaching Chantek ASL was fascinating. We all knew that Chimpanzees could learn ASL but who knew that testing beyond and turning society’s heads to orangutans would benefit us all so much? Lyn and her helpers at the university took good care of Chantek and raised him as if he was a human infant. However, I found it very sad when after 8 years of being at the university Chantek was banned. It must have been a very drastic transition for both Chantek and Lyn because they were used to their living establishment. This experiment impressed me greatly, yet if Lyn was better funded and more equipped with helpers etc; Chantek would’ve in my opinion; been able to learn ASL faster and gotten further in teaching Orangutans to communicate with humans. …show more content…
The fact that she had this opportunity is life changing, especially at the beginning of her career it was really a jump start to her employment. I think that we, as our community and civilisation, should open up more to the idea of pursuing further animal testing because if this experiment went so well with Lyn and Chantek; who knows what the future holds? We can take this practice to really grasp what an incredible thing we have. That we have tought animals to communicate with humans in ways