Cross Species Fostering Research Paper

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Cross Species Fostering Imagine a world where humans and animals live together as one. Cross Species Fostering is an area where people take animals alike to chimps into their homes and raise them, this is seen more often today. Cross Species Fostering can be done do research on animals and to learn what animals can learn. Cross Species Fostering may sound harmless, but may have several impacts on chimps in the field of learning and behavior skills. A question that may arise from an animal that have been raised by humans is what are the skills that a chimp may gain by being raised my humans? On the web page from The Telegraph, an article called Nim Chimpsky, the chimp who thought he was a boy; it speaks of a chimp called Nim. The results …show more content…
On a web page called The Telegraph, it states “Nim had never been in a cage or met another chimpanzee, and the transition would be traumatic. He was eager to communicate with people, and after a few months of terrible anxiety and fights with his cellmates, a keeper began to work closely with him, teaching him how to read the gestures of other chimps and stay alive”. Being taken from captivity can be fatal some times for a chimp. Due to the fact that Nim was raised in a house he did not know how to act around other chimps and caused him to fight with other chimps. Chimps have to learn to be around other chimps to stay alive, removing chimps from their natural habitat causes them to not learn essential skills that were needed for them to learn for the chimps to be in captivity. The keeper had to teach the skills to the chimp in order for the chimp to stay alive around the other chimps. Removing chimps from their natural habitat and domesticating them to be around humans, causing them to have deficiencies once they return to their natural habitat and not learn the necessary skill to be around other chimps like …show more content…
In the Kellogg’s experiment they raised a chimp alongside their child. On a web page by the Smithsonian it speaks of why the study came to a stop, it states “But eventually, as NPR notes, Gua hit a cognitive wall: no amount of training or nurturing could overcome the fact that, genetically, she was a chimpanzee”. The result of being raised in a house by humans did make Gua an intelligent chimp, but even though it was, it reached its limits on how intelligent a chimp can become. Once Gua hit a cognitive wall the studies ended and Gua was taken back to captivity. If a chimp is raised around humans, what is the limit that they hit when they are being taught like a
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