I don’t believe the transplanation team should go ahead with the experiment. To end the life on an endangered species to possibly save the life of another human being is selfish and could prove to be a waste if that human being cant find a replacement heart. This issue also raises the issue of if we value ourselves as more important than all other animals, including endangered ones. Can we comfortably make the decision of ending another animals life that rarely reproduces and has a population in the mere thousands, just to potentially stall long enough to save a human being?

I respect human life and feel all the money and research going into the chimpanzee operations should be applied in finding a new method of replicating a human heart. I don’t think its right to throw away a life of another animal just for 11 weeks of a human life. I don’t feel both are equivalent in anyway, we should respect other life on this planet because we aren’t much different from them. We may be more intelligent but clearly don’t value nor respect the lives of other living creatures.