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Jinn - I might have agreed with you once. Saw a documentary about some orangutans - one had been taught sign and could communicate. After that part of her life ended, she was shipped on to other experiments, and finaly was infected with hepatitis. After many years she was finaly reunited with the scientist who taught her sign - and immediately she started signing - asking to be taken home because she was sad etc. The poor animal so obviously distressed was signing and signing - once again she had a human who could understand her, someone she recognised. Heartbreaking. Of course she could never leave - none of them could - all lived isolated existences, infected with hep. The experiments at an end, the vets were ordered to euthanise - and they refused. The animals deserved better. In the documentary, you saw them in their seperate enclosures, designed with a hub and seperate sleeping compartments, spreading out like a wheel into their seperate outside spaces. Heartbreaking but informative. The lady who taught her sign wept openly too - they had been tutor and student and also friends.
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