The idea of taming apes to perform human work has been tried many times and never succeeded. Simply, there is no way to convince an ape to do anything for us: no feeding handicapped persons, no guiding blind persons, no pushing coal carts in mines, no fighting as heroic soldiers in our battles. That's not all. Many tried to measure the muscular force of a chimp, since it is estimated that they are three or four times stronger than us, but they totally refuse to lift heavy weights or pull the handles of dynamometers. Of course they understand what is required from them, to pull forcefully a handle, and they understand they will be paid handsomely for the exercise, but they refuse to co-operate.
Only Homo sapiens and mules can be trained to slave for others.
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