The story you're loking for is Robert Heinlein's "Jerry Was a Man"
"Never judge a book by its movie." http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/ > Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:26:35 -0800 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: "Ape Genius" on NOVA last night > To: brin-l@mccmedia.com > > > I wrote: > > <snip> > > More on those spear-makers: > > > > > http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2008-04/chimps-with-spears/roach-text.html > > [from a reporter's visit with researcher Jill Pruetz] > > Shades of a short story, title and author not > recalled, of granting legal status to a > cigarette-smoking chimp (who had learned to delay > gratification, IIRC): > > "...New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the > United Kingdom have all passed legislation limiting > experimentation on great apes, and the Balearic > Islands in Spain passed a resolution in 2007 granting > them basic legal rights. In 2006 an Austrian animal > rights organization submitted an application to a > district court in Mödling to appoint a legal guardian > for a chimp named Hiasl. The strategy was to establish > "legal person" status for the hairy defendant..." > > Chimp behavior snippets: > > "...I had not known that chimpanzee yawns are > contagious—both among each other and to humans. I had > known that chimps laugh, but I did not know that they > get upset if someone laughs at them.* I knew that > captive chimps spit, but I hadn't known that they, > like us, seem to consider spitting the most extreme > expression of disgust—one reserved, interestingly, for > humans. I knew that a captive ape might care for a > kitten if you gave one to it, but had not heard of a > wild chimpanzee taking one in, as Tia did with a genet > kitten. The list goes on. Chimps get up to get snacks > in the middle of the night. They lie on their backs > and do "the airplane" with their children. They kiss. > Shake hands. Pick their scabs before they're > ready...As a colleague of Pruetz's once said to her, > "A chimp takes a crap in the forest, and someone > publishes a paper about it." (No exaggeration. One > paper has a section on chimpanzees' use of "leaf > napkins": "This hygienic technology is directed to > their bodily fluids (blood, semen, feces, urine, > snot). ... Their use ranges from delicate dabbing to > vigorous wiping..." > > > *Cats also recognize the difference between laughing > with (as when they're playing with you and being > silly) and being made fun of (as when they completely > muff a usually-gracefully-executed move), and when > your laughter has nothing whatsoever to do with them > (as at the TV or a book). > > Debbi > More Fodder For The Humorists Maru ;) > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
