Chapter 6: Monkey Love
Summary
This chapter talks about Harry Harlow's monkey experiments. Harlow was able to prove in his experiments that a monkey preferred a soft cloth surrogate mother than a milk-bearing one. Slater also describes Harlow's life as he got married for the first time, when he had an affair, his divorce, and his second marriage. Animal rights activists claim that Harlow's experiment were extremely cruel, although we have to admit we were able to learn a lot from them.
Discussion
I think in his experiments, the ends justify the means. Slater writes in this chapter how social service agencies, the birthing industry and other industries were affected by Harlow's findings, for the good I would say. Some of the findings might appear very obvious to us now. However, it is very interesting to see the different variations that Harlow played with in his experiments.
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