TEARS pricked Janis Carter’s eyes as chimpanzee Lucy held her in the tightest embrace of their ten-year relationship - then turned and walked into the rainforest.
The final hug signaled the moment that Lucy - raised as a human in a bizarre experiment in the United States - found her independence, six long years after the pair arrived in Africa.
Lucy had been taken from her mother at two days old and raised as the “daughter” of scientist Maurice Temerlin and his wife Jane.
She slept in a bed, had coffee and oatmeal for breakfast and even mixed her own gin and tonics, squeezing the lime with her teeth.
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