Name: 科學家成功教會大猩猩它總有一天會死的 (Scientists Successfully Teach Gorilla It Will Die Someday)
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Scientists at Tulane university's primate research center

announce they have taught  a gorilla that someday it will die.

Nate Meredith has more in "The Lab Report".

In an historic first, a team of  primatologists has succeeded

in teaching Quigley,  a western lowland gorilla,

the concept of mortality  and his inevitable doom.

Lana Borrows and Phillip Townsend are the researchers leading the project.

When we first started with Quigley,  he was just a normal happy ape,

The first thing we did,  was we taught him patterns,

like red block, blue block, green block, over and over.

gorilla born, gorilla grow, gorilla die, over and over.

The researchers then showed Quigley photographs of dead, dying gorillas,

while communicating the phrases, "You some day" and "No choice".

It took thousands of repetitions, but Quigley finally became cognisant

and the decomposing pile of hair and flesh in the photo.

Quigley shared his feelings in a confessional after completing each exercise.

Quigley also began painting pictures like these almost everyday,

to make sure Quigley retains  the awareness of his own demise

the team spent several hours per day reinforcing the certainty of deaths arrival.

The researchers say at first Quigley  could only communicate rudimentary fears

about his own death, but he soon moved on to expressing more complex emotions,

And just two days ago Phillip Townsend and his colleagues even witnessed

what they believe to have been  a panic attack in Quigley.

He was letting out these anguished cries  and banging his head against the wall.

The Tulane scientists believe that we may be able to teach a gorilla

to resort to alcoholism or even try to kill itself in as little as a decade.

The scientists next plan to test whether the results

with Quigley can be replicated with other species.

They're on the initial stages of teaching bunny rabbits that they will all die.

These are thrilling times. For "The Lab Report"- I'm Nate Meredith.

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