Linda Koebner was a 23-year-old grad student and she got to do something
incredible. It was a different time, when there were less laws to
protect animals from being experimented on. A group of lab chimpanzees
that were no longer needed were to be free. Linda would be the one to
open their cages and show them sunlight for the first time in six years.
The creatures were frightened. Their whole lives had been spent
indoors, in tiny metal boxes. It was Linda’s job to acclimate them to
the wild. To teach them to survive. She was their surrogate mother.
After having not seen Doll and Swing for 18 years, Linda believes they
won’t remember her; that her babies are now wild animals; that there was
just no way. She has no idea how they will react!
