In the scientist’s dictionary, an animal and an object are synonyms as animals are and should only be seen as means to our ends. In " Learning from the Chimpanzees: A Message Humans Can Understand", Jane Goodall uses irony to challenge this ideology. In fact, at the beginning of her essay, she says: "As I had not had an undergraduate science education, I did not realize that animals were not supposed to have personalities, or to think, or to feel emotions or pain" (Goodall). I chose that quote because it is interesting to see how the use of irony gives the statement so much more weight…