• Question: Is it possible to make an ape act like a human, for example drive a car, make their own food, etc.

    Asked by mathi123 to Lewis on 8 Mar 2014.
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      Lewis Dean answered on 8 Mar 2014:

      I don’t think that we will ever see a chimp driving a car (I hope not anyway, I think that it would be pretty dangerous!). Chimps do hunt for their own food and use tools to crack nuts, get the sap out of tree and pick up ants to eat.

      We need to be careful trying to make chimps, gorillas or other species like humans. They have their own behaviour and their own societies and we shouldn’t try to mess with them too much.

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