“There are things I didn’t want to be involved in,” he told me. “To get apes to do anything you want them to do, you have to dominate them; you have to manipulate them into performing.
当我上个月和怀亚特交流的时候，他承认不使用真正的大猩猩是有操作上的因素的。但他同时也表示理解其中的伦理问题。“有些东西是我不想触及的，”他对我说，“如果想让大猩猩听你的指挥，那么你就得支配它们；你必须操纵它们去表演，这是剥削行为。”