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The Double Dishonesty of Chimp Crazy
The docuseries focuses on the lengths a woman will go to keep her pet chimp but fails to acknowledge the ethical mire behind the camera.
He knows that his primary subject, Tonia Haddix, kidnapped a chimp named Tonka and lied about it, secretly hiding the animal in her basement for a year while pretending the ape died, a claim she reiterates through jagged sobs during a court hearing. The outcome suggests Chimp Crazy did achieve a greater good: It put Tonka in a more suitable living environment, held Haddix accountable for her actions, and illustrated the dangers of attempting to domesticate animals not meant to exist as roommates for human beings. In that Rolling Stone article, for example, an unnamed source says members of the crew were “disturbed” by Tonka’s care, but also “‘uncomfortable’ with the ethics of Haddix being in the dark about who was behind the documentary.” The documentary never suitably addresses any of this, nor Goode’s trickery.
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