Henry Raven's son, Harry, reflects on growing up with Meshie in the articles: "Reunion With a Childhood Bully, Taxidermied" ( The New York Times, June 5, 2009) and "A Rival Recalled" ( The New York Times, June 6, 2009). Her remains were returned to the AMNH for preparation and she presently can be seen in the Hall of Primates, sitting on a log, her chin propped up on her knuckles, looking pensively at all who pass." American Museum of Natural History.
She was sold to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago where she died in 1937 after giving birth to a daughter. Chimpanzee is a Disney documentary in the classic style of the 50s and 60s TrueLife Adventures series that earned the studio several Oscars. As a student in 1970s Oklahoma, Janis Carter took a job caring for Lucy, a chimp raised as a human by psychologists. But exactly 13 years ago today, his owner Sandra Herold watched helplessly from her vehicle in the driveway of her Stamford home as he mercilessly mauled her long-time friend Charla Nash. "By 1934 Meshie, now seventy pounds and as strong as a man, had become unmanageable. TRAVIS the chimp was raised like a human child - he would play, wear nappies, dress in clothes, and even starred in adverts for Pepsi. She plays with a hose, joins in games with the Raven children, manipulates tools, encounters snakes and mice, writes with a pencil, eats with a spoon, rides a tricycle, and feeds a human infant." University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. "This film records, in the informal style of a home movie, some of a young chimpanzee's (Pan troglodytes) activities while raised in the Ravens' home. Identifier:Īmerican Museum of Natural History list of titled amateur films Still image from Meshie, The Child of a Chimpanzee via The New York Times.