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An infant chimpanzee, dressed in riotous checks, bowtie and braces, cradled in human arms while it regards a camera, is perhaps further from us than a tiger lurking in the deepest jungle. Anthropomorphic sentiment negates empathy, blinding us to the real animal behind the “character.” The engaging creature we imagine we’d like to hold and protect is the product, most likely, of violent separation and trauma, stolen in order to bring us this enjoyment. We read the comical face, celebrating what appear to be traces of commonality; but the eyes of the small creature are windows to a realm we cannot comprehend. By following the life of a single chimpanzee, Cobby, the oldest chimp in captivity in the USA, this paper will explore our attraction to cuteness via the lens of chimpanzees in entertainment, regarding it as an intersection of emotion and metaphor that is potentially devastating to animals. We will argue that anthropomorphic sentiment and construction misdirects empathy away from the plight of real animals, and that every animal has the right to be acknowledged as a unique individual, rather than a generic entity. Animals that have been born in captivity and, to a lesser extent, those that have been extracted from the wild in infancy, can be seen as trapped between worlds. There exists, therefore, a hybrid population of animals that lives amongst us, amnesiacs dependent upon human compassion, or conversely, prey to its absence. Resumen Una cria de chimpance, vestida a cuadros alborotados, pajarita y tirantes, acunada en brazos humanos mientras que mira una camara, esta tal vez mas lejos de nosotros que un tigre que acecha en la selva mas profunda. El sentimiento antropomorfico niega la empatia, nos ciega ante el animal real detras del “personaje”. La criatura atractiva que imaginamos que nos gustaria guardar y proteger es el producto, probablemente, de la separacion violenta y del trauma, robada para traernos este disfrute. Leemos la cara comica, celebrando lo que parecen ser rastros de similitud; pero los ojos de la pequena criatura son ventanas a un reino que no podemos comprender. Siguiendo la vida de un unico chimpance, Cobby, el chimpance mas viejo en cautividad en los Estados Unidos, este trabajo explora nuestra atraccion hacia la ternura a traves de la lente de los chimpances en el entretenimiento, considerandola como una interseccion de emocion y metafora que es potencialmente devastadora para los animales. Sostenemos que la construccion y el sentimiento antropomorficos dirigen mal la empatia de la dificil situacion de animales reales, y que cada animal tiene derecho a ser reconocido como un individuo unico, en lugar de una entidad generica. Los animales que han nacido en cautividad y, en menor medida, aquellos que han sido extraidos de la naturaleza durante la infancia, pueden apreciarse como atrapados entre mundos. Por lo tanto, existe una poblacion hibrida de animales que viven entre nosotros, amnesicos dependientes de la compasion humana, o por el contrario, victimas de su ausencia.

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&lt;b&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Cutopia&lt;/i&gt; Paradox: Anthropomorphism as Entertainment&lt;/b&gt; // La paradoja de la utopía de lo adorable: Antropomorfismo como entretenimiento