Physically, apes could be killed, tortured, captured, or otherwise dominated without any ethical concerns, and conceptually they were reduced to a kind of grotesque, at times even monstrous, being. This sort of process is hardly limited to the way humans have viewed and treated the beings called apes; the general term “beast” operates in a similar fashion on a broader scale, and the word “animal” itself is not infrequently used in a similar
Physically, apes could be killed, tortured, captured, or otherwise dominated without any ethical concerns, and conceptually they were reduced to a kind of grotesque, at times even monstrous, being. This sort of process is hardly limited to the way humans have viewed and treated the beings called apes; the general term “beast” operates in a similar fashion on a broader scale, and the word “animal” itself is not infrequently used in a similar