Saving the Chimps #
July 22nd, 2008 | In Worth Considering
…by barring them from popular culture(?!). Maybe it’s just me, but this thesis seems a little absurd:
And many of those who imagined chimpanzees to be safe reported that they based their thinking on the prevalence of chimps in advertisements, on television and in the movies.
Having said that, I also didn’t know that chimpanzees are endangered. But I attribute it to insuffient publicity for that fact, not their presence popular culture.