i made a remark today to jake that elicited a comment about orangutans, and how i might could use one because Clyde had a mean right hook... which lead me to search on Clyde... which brought me to...
According to "Visions of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People" by famed primatologist Jane Goodall and Dale Peterson, the original "Clyde" was trained with a can of mace and a pipe wrapped in newspaper. He was viciously beaten the day before filming started to make him more docile. Near the end of filming the sequel "Any Which Way You Can," the orangutan was caught stealing doughnuts on the set, brought back to the training facility and beaten for 20 minutes with a 3 1/2 -foot ax handle. He died soon after of a cerebral hemorrhage.
People suck.
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Whoever wrote that should have put "trained" in quotation marks.
That's truly awful.
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