Lucy was a chimpanzee owned by the Institute of Primate Studies in Oklahoma and raised by psychotherapist and professor, Maurice Temerlin at the University of Oklahoma and Temerlin's wife, Jane. Lucy was born in 1964 and died in 1987. The Temerlins treated Lucy like a human from the beginning.
She was taught to eat with silverware, dress herself, eat at the dinner table, and flip through magazines. She learned basic American Sign Language for communication and learned 140 signs. She made it into Life magazine when they found out that Lucy drank straight gin, was rearing a cat, and looked at Playboy and used a vacuum cleaner to masturbate.
So, the Temerlins introduced Lucy to a male chimpanzee, but she didn't relate to him or find him attractive. She was actually scared of him. Lucy was pretty strong by the time she was 12 and destroyed the Temerlins house. So, she was shipped off to a monkey rehabilitation camp in Gambia.